The change of values in the west and the task of community personalism

Authors

  • Carlos Díaz Hernández Universidad Complutense de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33539/phai.v13i1.325

Keywords:

Theocentrism, anthropocentrism, axiological stages, nihilism, humanism, commitment

Abstract

The author analyzes the stages of the crisis of values considering four phases: the theocentric, characterized by blind faith, having as prototype to Abraham; the theo-anthropocentric, typical of the renaissance, the reformation and the enlightenment; the Promethean anthropocentrism; and the post- anthropocentric and post-theocentric of Narcissus, in which there is only the “I”, without God at the sight and whose features are: goodbye to the worldviews, relativism, individualism and the end of history. As a way out of this crisis, the vision of community personalism by E. Mounier is proposed, that conceives the person as a spiritual being, as absolute subject of values, being a value
in itself, divided into three axes: the value, the duty and the virtue. The community personalism is the counterpart of oppressive capitalism and abstract individualism.

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Published

2014-12-30

How to Cite

Díaz Hernández, C. (2014). The change of values in the west and the task of community personalism. Phainomenon, 13(1), 11–30. https://doi.org/10.33539/phai.v13i1.325