On Moral Legitimacy of the Normative Reconstruction of Subject Behavior in Post-pandemic Era

Abstract

The enlightening significance of contemporary and modern biopolitics’ appearance in COVID-19 pandemic lies in Life’s appeal of both the fear of death and the fear of been dominated. Therefore, the authority and its agency are responsible for the moral promise of individual safety which follows the logic of survival and free development which follows the logic of human beings’ development. The value ranking of the above two parts in different social contexts constitute the moral legitimacy basis when the authority formulates the policy on the normative reconstruction of subject behavior. In this respect, the Post-pandemic Era means the reverse of value ranking in the state of emergency, meanwhile, the normal and regulation of subject behavior need to be reconstructed, and then the moral rationality and legitimacy need to be simultaneously and theoretically illustrated. The relational thinking based on commensalism, rather than the reductionism thinking based on individualistic-atomic theory, will help to recognize the internal connection among the individual, the other and the community. Then the illustration of moral rationality which is constructed for the social temporary order in a state of emergency will be provided, and a probable path to deal the dilemma of the contemporary biopolitics will finally be proposed.