Globalisation: From Chrematistic Rest to Humanist Wakefulness

Chapter 1 analyses the epistemological, anthropological and ethical aspects of globalisation and, as a result of the 2008 crisis, the urgency for a change of paradigm. The proposal involves overcoming the decadent post-modernity that characterises post-structuralism – which abandons itself to the principle of pleasure, thus stimulating debt and speculation – by means of a humanist post-modernity based upon the following principles: in the epistemological field, the recuperation of reality in the face of the game (including the stock markets) and, therefore, the subordination of finances to productive economy; in the anthropological sphere, the recognition of the Golden rule in the face of i…

El futuro del derecho como lucha contra la idolatría tecnológica

The main challenge that Law will have to face in the near future is the defense of human being against the uncontrolled power of technology in different spheres: ecology versus the becoming of a new geological age: the Anthropocene; the finances, versus speculation and taxes fraud; biolaw, versus the transhumanist challenge; the rights to privacy and no manipulation versus GAF( Google, Amazon, Facebook). El reto principal al que debera hacer frente el derecho en el futuro es la defensa del ser humano frente al poder incontrolado de la tecnologia en diferentes campos: la ecologia, frente a la aparicion de una nueva era geologica: el Antropoceno; las finanzas, frente a la especulacion y el fr…

Por una rebeldía sin resentimiento: contra la desigualdad obscena y el populismo

El autor analiza como causas del malestar actual de la sociedad, de un lado, la indiferencia del sector mejor situado de la población ante el crecimiento de una desigualdad obscena. Y de otro la extensión de los populismos, basados en el resentimiento, fruto de un narcisismo carente de sentido de responsabilidad. Frente a ambos extremos propone una rebeldía contra la injusticia social y económica, que debe ir acompañada del agradecimiento ante la maravilla de la creación. The author approaches the reasons for the general lack of satisfaction in civil society: on one hand the indiference of those who are in a better position and on the other the increase of populism based on resentment and n…

The New Gnosis and the Denial of Ontological Differences

The current transhumanist or posthumanist movements continue the thesis of the old gnosis devaluing the creation like something imperfect. Its novelty is to believe in the possibility of overcoming the creation thanks to technology (biotechnology and bionics). The ideology of gender partly anticipates this way of thinking by devaluing the somatic difference between male and female. This denial of the differences then applies to those existing between the human and the non-human (on one side the primates, and on the other the computer). Posthumanism and transhumanism believe that technology will not only overcome the ontological differences, which form the human, but also the so-called extre…

La constitución de la imagen actual del hombre

The article analyses critically three dififerent models about human being: the homo faber, or tecnocratic humanism, dominant along Modernity from Descartes and Bacon to Marx; the homo natura and the homo ludens , which represent antihumanist models of the late Modernity. In front of these models we can find a fourth one: the homo patiens or excentric humanism, openned to God, others and nature. Only this model gives a consistent foundation to the universality of the rights because it identifies the concepts of human being and person.

Contra a financeirização da economia e a mercantilização da sociedade

La coscienza di Stamina / The consciousness of Stamina

Il trionfo della ragione strumentale e calcolatrice su quella che rivela il significato delle cose ha condotto la societa odierna a diventare una “societa di mercato”, dove tutto diventa un oggetto del desiderio venale e banale. Al centro della situazione descritta, si e generata una confusione tra il legittimo diritto di avere figli – nel senso del diritto alla liberta o divieto di generare – e il falso diritto di avere bambini a tutti costi, indipendentemente dagli eventuali danni causati a terzi innocenti. ---------- The triumph of instrumental and calculating reason over the reason which reveals meaning has led nowadays society to become a “market society”, where everything becomes an o…

Derechos sociales y deuda. Entre capitalismo y economía de mercado. || Social rights and debt. Between capitalism and market economy

Resumen: Las finanzas pueden servir a los derechos sociales en una economía de mercado, porque en ella están subordinadas a la economía real, y tienen carácter limitado, pero no en el capitalismo porque en él las finanzas son autorreferenciales, no tienen término, y conducen a una sociedad indefinidamente endeudada, en la que las deudas son impagables. 
  
 Abstract: Finance can be useful for social rights in a market economy. This is due to the fact of the subordination of finance to real economy and due to its limited character. In contrast, finance in a capitalist economy is self-referential, are boundless and lead to a society in which debts are unpayable.