Implications of the Ethics of Life and Society's Views on the South Korean Series: Squid Game

Since last September, Indonesia has been shocked by the Squid Game series on Netflix, which has managed to occupy the number one favorite series worldwide. In this series, there are life problems for every character, in which they fight for each other's position without caring about the lives of each other in getting prizes. Researchers want to know how people understand the value of players’ life in the Squid Game series and its implications for everyday life. Respondents are at least 18 years old and have watched all the Squid Game series episodes. Processing research data using quantitative methods require respondents to fill out four essay questions in the form and two multiple choices. We also collect data using qualitative methods, which is interviewing three respondents. The results of the three respondents we interviewed, they all agreed that the value of life in the Squid Game series could be implied in daily life. However, people who participated in this survey were general respondents with no specific requirements. The researcher suggests that further research can use a more detailed scope of respondents, such as the academic community of Airlangga University, to get more in-depth answers. This study examines the implications of axiological values and people's views on the Squid Game series, which has received much public attention. Researchers have limited research and reference lists in this study.

China's effective measures in fighting against COVID-19 and pollutant changes in Wuhan during corresponding periods

The δ- and λ-variants of COVID-19 are blowing to globle economy, human life and health. The variants put the world in a harsher state. Lockdown is powerful in stopping the spread and infection. We evaluate the lockdown impact on NO2, SO2, O3, PM2.5 and PM10 in Wuhan, which reported the first COVID-19 case. Data before, during and after blokade in year 2020 were all analyzed. Lockdown significantly decreased four of the five pollutants. The decreasing reasons are discussed in social policies, people's living habits and Chinese characters. Wuhan is a transportation hub in central China. Viruses spread through it to all over the country. Although COVID-19 mainly bring bad social effects, people get chance to rethink the value of life: We should sustainablely develop and pursuing spiritual instead of excessive material enjoyment. These ultimately built more stable societies and benefit mankind itself.

The philosophical model of the family in the context of anthropological and social challenges with a view to Kant, Husserl and Heidegger – a focal point sketch

When we talk about anthropological and social problems, we usually methodologically assume an epistemically stable structure of thought “human-family-society”. This creates a basis for the philosophical model of the family, which is characterized by causal hermeneutics. One cannot talk reliably about the family without referring to the individual and you cannot speak reliably about the society without referring to the family, which then enables the family to be “communion personarum”. This constellation takes on a transcendental configuration at Kant, phenomenological at Husserl and existential at Heidegger. The reference to mandatory ethics, living world and concern is taken. This establishes the methodological framework, where the ontological-epistemic and ethical structure of the family can be analyzed, looking back at the value of life.

Dimensi Aksiologis Pendidikan Islam

Axiology is a theory about a value, benefit or everything that is known. Axiology divided into two parts, namely ethic and aesthetic. The ethics are divided into two parts, the first is descriptive ethics and the second is normative ethics, as well as Aesthetics, there are two parts of Aesthetics, the first is Descriptive Aesthetics and the second is Normative Aesthetics. While the source of value has two parts, namely, divine values and Inaniyah values. Characteristics and value levels are also divided into two, namely objective or subjective values and absolute or changing values. In the essence of value, there are important points such as: the value of life, the value of enjoyment, the value of usability, the value of intellectuals, the value of ethics, the value of aesthetics, and the value of religion. Islamic education has a goal, namely to make students as human beings who develop towards a better and become ethical human beings and have a personality that is in accordance with Islamic teachings, both in terms of spiritual, scientific, scientific, both individually and collectively. Values are closely related to Islamic education because Islamic education is a process of achieving perfection in terms of the ability of students in accordance with Islamic teachings.

Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues that neoliberalism is reinventing life under biocapital. She offers new biopolitical figurations that can help theoretically grasp and politically respond to a distinctive twenty-first-century biopolitics. This book theorizes how biotechnology intervenes in the very processes of biological function, reshaping life itself to serve economic ends. Linking fictional texts with material examples, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction shows how these practices are linked to new modes of exploitative economic relations that cannot be redressed by human rights. It concludes with a posthumanist reframing of the value of life that grounds itself elsewhere than in capitalist logics, a vision that, in a Covid age, might become fundamental to a new politics of ecological relations.

Optimal shutdown strategies for COVID-19 with economic and mortality costs: British Columbia as a case study

Decision makers with the responsibility of managing policy for the COVID-19 epidemic have faced difficult choices in balancing the competing claims of saving lives and the high economic cost of shutdowns. In this paper, we formulate a model with both epidemiological and economic content to assist this decision-making process. We consider two ways to handle the balance between economic costs and deaths. First, we use the statistical value of life, which in Canada is about C$7 million, to optimize over a single variable, which is the sum of the economic cost and the value of lives lost. Our second method is to calculate the Pareto optimal front when we look at the two variables—deaths and economic costs. In both cases we find that, for most parameter values, the optimal policy is to adopt an initial shutdown level which reduces the reproduction number of the epidemic to close to 1. This level is then reduced once a vaccination programme is underway. Our model also indicates that an oscillating policy of strict and mild shutdowns is less effective than a policy which maintains a moderate shutdown level.