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    Published: 2022-10-31
    Vol. 39 No. 2 (2018)

    Interpretation of the phenomenon of labour by french personalists Within the context of civilizational crisis

    Richard Gorban
    Seminare. Learned Investigations
    Section: Philosophy
    https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2018.2.04

    Abstract

    In this article, the author provides insight into personalistic interpretation of the phenomenon of labour, proposed by French philosophers-personalists at the time of exacerbation of the economic crisis of the 1930-s in France. He substantiates, that Mounier, Maritain and Lacroix consider the possibility of a new, personal civilization, feeling the civilizational nature of the Great Depression, which was historically pervasive, and well aware that it is one of the most powerful manifestations of the anthropological crisis, caused by the decline of industrial civilization, built on vulgar materialism and belief that economic motivation determines human existence. Philosophers-personalists suggest considering economy from the standpoint of spiritual values, and labour — as an effective force of the spirit, through which the spirit is realized in life. They regard personalistic worldview as an alternative to the fascist, national-socialist, and communist ideologies, anti-personalistic by their very nature, the threat of which was becoming more and more obvious at that time. French philosophers are convinced that personalism, based on understanding of the qualities of a person and their hierarchy, must stop the pathological growth of the economic principle in the human world, because economy must serve the person, and not vice versa.

    Keywords:

    personalism, person, labour, civilizational crisis, economy

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    Gorban , R. (2022). Interpretation of the phenomenon of labour by french personalists Within the context of civilizational crisis . Seminare. Learned Investigations, 39(2), 45–56. https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2018.2.04

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