Reflections on Covid-19: a crisis of freedom, but to what end?
Originally published in The Cambridge Student.
What is freedom? Is it the right to choose and determine all actions which we make, or the capacity to gain from actions which we partake in? What is the role of community in our understanding of freedom? For a community must have a radiant centre, a light which shines through all people involved. This needs an invisible altar with which all inside worship. An agreement of the common good which assists the vibrancy of encounters with one another. There has to be a realisation of our joint and united endeavour in our understanding of ourselves. But to what extent have freedom and community become entirely separate?
We look at our current circumstances against the backdrop of VE day. A time of remembrance of joint loss and suffer...