Cosmopolitanism and Plurality of Culture: Lalruatfela & Temjenkala Jamir

presuppositions, differentiates substance, measure situations, readdresses disfigurement, analyzes reasons, inspecting world views, establish actions, broaden different idea and experiences, synthesizes understanding, unravels ignorance, enlarge imaginations, reevaluate emotions and examine different beliefs and values.

2. PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICE IN COVID TIMES

It is to be noted that this Pandemic has drawn everyone‘s attention on three things: Human fragility (a virus can kill human beings), Vulnerability (Human condition is exposed), and its impotence (inability to do anything). With technological innovation and upscaling of possibilities, modern man had forgotten his sense of fragility. He has the impression of staying in the possibilities of the life of mastering and conquering. Through the scientific innovation of medicines and drugs, he ignores the idea of his fragile nature. But this Pandemic makes all of us realize how fragile human beings are. He can easily infect and kill anyone despite their caste, religion, sex, or social circumstances. Thus, the pandemic has highlighted the position of humans as finite, one who can be eliminated by a virus. Talking about the Vulnerable aspect of humans, the pandemic made us vulnerable in the sense that the human condition is revealed. We can no longer do the same thing which we did earlier in our everyday lives. In this way, we lost our touch with life.

Apart from these two, this pandemic has made us impotent. Today the human race has become impotent. His interpersonal relations are in chaos. Even though leading experts from across the world have been trying their best to find a way out of this pandemic, the only available option remains isolation.

Besides this, different existential questions arise in this uncertain time. Ontological insecurity1 for life seems prevalent which gives rise to different mental disorders. Isolation has made us anxious and fearful. Lack of social contact disrupts communication between people. This gives people a tremendous amount of mental agitation affecting their everyday living. Sleeping issues, lack of concentration, fear of future, feeling of uncertainty, etc. problems like these come in between.

Thus, philosophy acknowledges these conceptions and provide epistemic justification2 of different feelings which the humans are facing in pandemic time. It also acknowledges the incumbent existence

1 Ontological insecurity refers, in an existential sense, to a person’s sense of “being” in this world. An ontologically insecure person does not accept the fundamental level of reality or existence of things, themselves, and others. (For details, see: Jackson & Hogg 2010) 2Epistemic justification refers to the justification of the belief system.