Original scientific paper
GREAT TRANSFORMATIONS
Matko Meštrović
; Institute of Economics, Zagreb
Abstract
The geobiosocial evolution of the Earth announces the stage of noosphere as the flourishing of mankind and the realization of every person's inner potential. Such civilizational maturation of the human race implies the emancipation of human spirit from the authorities of formalized systems and quantitative standards. This means a broadening of the episthemological horizon and a deep transformation of the weltanschauung. Only the accelerated opening towards the sociocultural evolution can raise the economic process to a higher level. Yet, this direction has been historically blocked by the organization of the modern / postmodern society based on the principle of gain and profit.
The arguments for the stated theses have been collected transdisciplinary and presented diachronically. Added are also the insights into the changes of modern enlightement thought and its recent criticism, which resist a general commodification.
Keywords
evolution; entropy; economics; noosphere; epistemological survey; historical criticism; civilization; dystopy; utopia; reality; goods fiction; emancipation; civil society
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141329
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Publication date:
15.9.2001.
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