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Globalisation: From Chrematistic Rest to Humanist Wakefulness

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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 individualism and the value of loyalty when undertaking commitments as opposed to instantaneism; in the ethical field, the defence of the economy of the market, avoiding market society, which is to say avoiding the corruption of the human being and the plundering of nature; and last but not least, the understanding that the fundamental cause of the current crisis is the absolutisation of money, for the latter cannot overcome the ontological finitude of human beings. Only man’s sense of the transcendent can challenge the problem of economical equity adequately, by situating the person above things and currencies.