POLICY AND ECONOMY IN EMMANUEL MOUNIER'S PERSONALISM

Abstract

This article aims to present the political and economic reflection elaborated by the French philosopher Emmanuel Mounier and merged in the philosophical current nicknamed personalism. The future city can only be realized through small communities made of responsible and mature people, who actively live their insertion in the community, thus escaping the anonymity that marks life in large agglomerations. The Mounierian analysis of politics is intrinsically linked to the economic perspective of personalism, which has as its starting point the critique of the capitalist system and bourgeois man. The capitalist economy mortifies the person and therefore needs to formalize an economy of the new face, a personalistic face. The shift from a money economy to a person economy requires a firm break. It is in defence of the values ​​of the person that Mounier wages a battle against the ethic of capitalism to replace it with an ethic of personalism. Mounier outlines an economic model from the perspective of the person, where socialization replaces every form of nationalization, developing union life to achieve the dignity of the individual of each worker.