THE GOOD REASONS FOR A BROADER REASON

摘要

The persistence of the global economic crisis and the rapid geo-political transformations that are under way, in particular those involving the Middle East and North Africa, seem to confirm the intentions of the organisers of this Summer School: a rethinking of our conception of human reason, in particular of economic and political reason, cannot be postponed. A realistic consideration of the crisis suggests in fact that if we are to emerge from it, the application of new technical solutions will not be sufficient, nor will the establishment of new rules that discipline the market, necessary though these may be. For while the initial emergency, involving as it did primarily banks and credit institutions, had pointed to a financial administration that was overly oriented towards the pursuit of short-term results - and this at the expense of the investment of resources saved for the benefit of the work, the wellbeing, and the development of the whole man and of all men - it has in the meantime given way to the no less worrying issue of the sovereign debt of states.