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It causes a fundamental shift in the way we see human beings, and it is evident everywhere. Ryle called the Cartesian view of mind: the ghost in the machine, and this played a role on par with Newton, highlighting this changing view of ourselves. By extension, God becomes the ghost in the economic machine...morality cannot be found explicitly, rather it emerges from the invisible ghost that emanates from behind our rugged self-interest.
Treating economics mechanistically, following Newton's seeming validation of mechanistic reductionism, justifies the treatment of economics as a physical system of science, rather than a moral one - which is obviously is since it involves the decisions of people. Taking morality out of economics is what has enabled the abuses of capitalism and communism alike.
So you're saying... To make rent, I need to resort to immoral means. Okay.
No. But I am saying that you and almost everyone else in various degrees are victims of an economic system that for centuries has ceased to have any mind for moral considerations. But whatever the unjust situations in which we find ourselves, no good end sought justifies evil means to attaining it - and if evil means are employed regardless, the end attained will not be peace or goodness of any kind.
Here, perhaps, Christianity is at odds in the real world. In the real world, immoral conditions cause people to perform immoral actions in order to defend themselves and their families. Theoretically this might be immoral, but raising that consideration to people in desperate situations doesn't convince them to act otherwise.
It is self-preservation that makes the world go round, not concern for what's right.
(The earth is stationary.)
Good commentary.
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