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Dans les années 1980 et jusqu’au milieu des années 1990, la réflexion d’André Gorz s’organise autour de l’opposition hétéronomie/autonomie reprise d’Illich qui est mise en correspondance avec celle de nécessité/liberté chez Marx, nécessité au premier chef, inhérente à la condition humaine, de produire sa subsistance, de gérer ce faisant ses relatio
... See moreSerge LATOUCHE • André Gorz et l'écosocialisme (French Edition)
Yet the aim of religious faith is to eliminate spiritual freedom in favor of eternal salvation. Rather than hold open the question of what to do with your time, eternal salvation would close down the question completely. Eternal salvation would not allow for any form of spiritual freedom, since it would remove the question of who you should be and
... See moreMartin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
the key to democratic socialism is to have institutions in which we participate because we recognize ourselves and our freedom in their form.
Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Hence, the attempt to achieve social justice through the redistribution of capital wealth is inherently contradictory. The more welfare policies and state regulations that prevent the exploitation of living labor, the more restricted are the possibilities of extracting surplus value, and the less “wealth” is available to distribute in the economy.
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To live a free life, it is not enough that we have the right to freedom. We must have access to the material resources as well as the forms of education that allow us to pursue our freedom and to “own” the question of what to do with our time. What belongs to each one of us—what is irreducibly our own—is not property or goods but the time of our li
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Parce que la nature est « ce qui sélectionne ». Plus une caractéristique existe depuis longtemps, plus elle a eu le temps d’être sélectionnée pour façonner la vie. Peu importe que cette caractéristique soit physique et biologique, ou sociale et culturelle. Tout ce qui importe, d’un point de vue darwinien, c’est la permanence. Et la hiérarchie de do
... See moreJordan B. Peterson • 12 règles pour une vie (French Edition)
Under capitalism, all questions of what we need, what we want, and what is durable, must be subordinated to the question of what is profitable.
Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Back in 1989, the American philosopher Francis Fukuyama already noted that we had arrived in an era where life has been reduced to “economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.”
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Dans Métamorphoses du travail puis dans Capitalisme, socialisme, écologie41, il plaide dans le sillage de l’économiste Karl Polanyi (1886-1964)42, pour le « réencastrement » de l’économie – et de la technique qui la sert – dans la société. Concrètement, il s’agit pour Gorz dans ces années, non pas de supprimer la logique du marché, mais de restrein
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