The global lockdown following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to generate all sorts of consequences: psychological, social, economic, and political. To hypothesize about what will emerge from the present situation is at this point both premature and impossible. The impossibility comes primarily from the gravity and vastness of this emergency and from the lack of intellectual resources to deal with the challenge. At the same time, however, the need to get a grasp of the condition in which we have found ourselves is both understandable and irresistible. One way of responding, at least partially, to the demand and its possible consequences may be to refer to the concept of abstract society, an idea formulated 75 years ago by the Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper.

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瘟疫时代的抽象社会

COVID-19大流行爆发后的全球封锁可能会产生各种后果：心理，社会，经济和政治后果。在这一点上假设目前情况将是不成熟的，也是不可能的。不可能主要来自紧急情况的严重性和广泛性，以及缺乏应对挑战所需要的智力资源。但是，与此同时，必须掌握我们发现自己处于何种状况是可以理解和不可抗拒的。至少部分响应需求及其可能后果的一种方法可能是引用抽象社会的概念，该概念是75年前由奥地利-英国哲学家卡尔·波珀（Karl Popper）提出的。