Within the framework of the highly professionalized standards of the academy, with its rankings and scientific productivity, humanities subsist. A possible explanationof this phenomenonis that, according to Social Ontology,desire-independent reasons for action are the key in contexts of education, and of humanities. In this paper, I examine how the market forces, which favor individualism and competition, creates tension between desires and obligations. As I argue here, in market contextsactions that satisfy desires are more valued than the theorization about collective intentionality and its product: the human civilization.
Keywords:
Humanities, education, market, desires, duties, desire-independent reasons for action
González Fernández, R. (2018). Market, Humanities and Education: An Analysis from Social Ontology. Revista De Filosofía, 74, pp. 73–90. Retrieved from https://revistafilosofia.uchile.cl/index.php/RDF/article/view/51875
