Evolution of ethical norms as an element of biopolitics

Abstract

As a set of legal norms and social institutions, biopolitics did not always imply the dominance of ethical principles as its own basic element. Based on the comparative analysis of the history of the formation of legal approaches to the content of biopolitics in the period of its emergence, the author comes to the conclusion about the transformation of the concept of biopolitics in the XXI century, associated with the inclusion of a basic ethical component in it. Regulation of relations based on a combination of formal legal imperatives and dispositions with ethical institutions generates not only standards of behavior of their participants, conforming to the autonomy of the will with the presumptions of reasonableness and good faith, but also formulates requirements for representatives of the legislative branch aimed at the inadmissibility of the adoption of legislative acts with a non-legal nature, since any future attempts to comply with them are illegal in themselves.