Social Responsibility as a Basis for Implementing the Goals of Sustainable Development in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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by Denys Svyrydenko1, Nataliia Krokhmal2 and Lesya Chervona3
1 Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology (Maoming, Guangdong Province, China)
2 Ukrainian State Dragomanov University (Kyiv, Ukraine)
3 Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/30/7
Received: 7 November 2022 / Accepted: 9 December 2022 / Published: 5 February 2023

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Abstract

Social responsibility as an awareness of the responsible attitude of the subjects (person, group, community, organization, state, society) to themselves and other subjects of this phenomenon and process is the basis for implementing Sustainable Development Goals. It permeates the entire structure of society both vertically (society – communities – person; state – region – citizen; economy – organization/enterprise (employer) – employee) and horizontally (society – states – economy; communities – regions – organizations/enterprises (employers); person – citizen – employee). The formation of social responsibility is necessary for implementing Sustainable Development Goals and, at the same time, is its basis. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the formation and development of the phenomenon of social responsibility as a basis for the implementation of the goals of sustainable development, encouraging new actors of this phenomenon to act, creating conditions for the public (planetary) association to fight COVID-19; changed approaches to the economy, ecology, social sphere, education, etc. These changes can no longer be reversed, and society can only use them as a basis for further implementation of sustainable development goals.

Keywords: social responsibility, sustainable development goals, COVID-19

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Svyrydenko, Denys, Nataliia Krokhmal and Lesya Chervona (2023) Social Responsibility as a Basis for Implementing the Goals of Sustainable Development in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Philosophy and Cosmology, Volume 30, 77-87. https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/30/7
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