Covid 19 Natural Evil / Human Evil: A Philosophical Investigation

Uzommah Michael(1*), Anselm Ikenna Odo(2), Nwohah Petermary(3),

(1) 1Department Of Philosphy, Albertine Institue, Fayit Fadan Kagoma, Via Kafanchan, Kaduna State, Nigeria
(2) Department of Educational Foundations,,, Philosophy of Education Unit Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria
(3) Department Of Philosophy and Religious Studies Tansian University, Umunya Anambra State, Nigeria
(*) Corresponding Author




DOI: https://doi.org/10.26858/predestinasi.v13i2.19358

Abstract


This paper sought to find out whether COVID 19 is as a result of natural evil, human evil or both. The researchers adopt an expository method in carrying out this work. Viruses have been around in the world long as life itself. We can confidently say that life as we know it would not exist without viruses. Viruses do leave “fossils” in the Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)-the hereditary material in humans and of other organisms, from which their history can be reconstructed. It is as a result of this that the researchers posit that COVID 19 is neither natural evil nor human evil. The researchers conclude that the issue of COVID 19 outbreak ravaging the earth has a sufficient reason. But sometimes our emotions blind us from seeing the reason but solely the event.


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natural evil; human evil; COVID 19.

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