Abstract:

The spread of COVID-19 has shown nature’s ruthless revenge on the development mode of industrialization and the great challenge for greedy human nature, opening the second process in which “human shall be human”. This process is a process not only to give up the fetters of materialism and technicalism and to establish spiritual independence and behavioral autonomy, but also to return to the life world and to deconstruct the alien dichotomy of leisure and labor by making leisure a new state of labor and the discovery of life meaning. In the era of post COVID-19, a new understanding of leisure also means a new understanding of labor. Leisure is a trigger that makes life interesting and happy and a vane of deciding to achieve oneself and find out the meaning of life in the uncertain life world. It indicates that only leisure labor can give life a new style. The deepen development of the intelligent revolution supplies a material premise for the unity of leisure and labor, which will make humanity function as the realistic basis for the development of science and technology.

Key words: COVID-19, relationship between human being and nature, unity of leisure and labor, spiritual independence