COVID-19 A Boundary Situation

It cannot be denied that the post-modern humans are living today in an unsatisfactory human condition after the horror of the novel COVID-19. This critical situation reminds me, Karl Jaspers's idea of the "boundary situation". The boundary situation is generally different from other situations. In the sense, it undermines humans' sense of security and threatens its entire being. One can imagine of boundary situation when one's life is shattered by extreme circumstances that seem difficult to overcome. A situation becomes a boundary situation 'when it succeeds in awakening the individual self to its existential content. As we observe today the atmosphere of anxiety and dread of death spreading throughout the world. The phenomenon of fear prominently the nosophobia and hypochondria not only generates psychological instability and existential anxiety in the people but also sharpens individuals' consciousness of the final call (death) that is not less t...