Disrespect World and Family Life World Breakdown during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 Pandemic causes not only health crisis but also crisis in household or family. A family is normatively built upon the concept of life world that begins with moral development of individual ethics in the family. However, what happens is the exact opposite. Household or family as a life world is breaking down due to diminishing respect resulting in a disrespect world state. Efforts to break the chain of spread of COVID-19 turn out to give birth to new problems that undermine the moral order of human life. It is just as devastating as the deteriorating body health due to the virus. Injustice occurs as the destruction of a morally good life, resulting in fundamental disturbance in building and maintaining the concept of plural society stemming from moral and ethical collapse of individuals in the family. This review about critical study is not limited to efforts to hurl criticism towards all forms of injustice, more than that critical theory is an attempt to dismantle all forms of pathologies in society that are the root of all forms of injustice. It also encompasses efforts to raise identity awareness which leads to a tendency to emphasize cultural particularity and human identity. Following Axel Honneth’s theory, moral actions encompass an understanding that includes three dimensions of morality, namely affective, legal, and social moralities that determine if an individual can be a moral agent. Honneth advocates a formal concept of morally good life as a foundation upon which the concept of plural society is built and maintained.