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Abstract(s)
Contemporary societies are regulated by a complex system, which tends to be exhaustive, supported by growing social
and technical interdependence. This system is composed of subsystems: global economic production, liberal political institutions
and a social organization based on labour. As a whole, these three
dimensions – political, economical, social – tend to compress
contemporary life forms into a single way of life, primarily structured by systemic functionality. Although it admits variations of
degree (or even, to some extent, qualitative differences), the functional codes (of systems) guide actions daily and impose severe
limitations on lifestyles, which are particularly noticeable when
the struggle for survival, both economically and socially, mobilizes all of one’s time and energy. The means obliterate the ends,
functioning obliterates meaning, survival obliterates the proper human “life”. At the political level, liberal thought masks the
“malaise of modern civilization” resulting from these limitations
by evacuating the question on forms of life to the private sphere,
concurrently with the insistence on an abstract political ethic of
the “just”, ultimately determining the form and functioning of the
institutions, which overrides any and all ethics of “good”.
Description
Esta obra coletiva é composta por capítulos ou em língua inglesa ou em língua francesa.
Keywords
Fenomenologia Filosofia Social
Citation
Barata, A., Santos, JM (2021) Formas de Vida/Forms of Life/Formes de Vie. Covilhã: Ta Pragmata
Publisher
Ta Pragmata