Dlaczego wciąż warto czytać Platona, czyli o pieniądzu inaczej

Abstract

The aim of the article is to show how thinking and acting are closely interrelated, and because of that, methodological disabilities in practicing any science, and social sciences and humanities in particular, have enormous practical effects. According to this thesis, both the science which wants to be directly related to the practice understood as multiplying the profit, as well as the one that programmatically separates from such an activity, have certain practical consequences. The main question that is ignored by both ways of practicing science concerns ethical effects of all human activities, especially scientific and economic ones. It causes excessive influence of emotional people –mainly those who are greedy and prone to aggression – on the functioning of societies. Science cannot change them, it can only be used by them. The inability to change their negative impact on societies was already ascertained by Plato. The only solution to the situation is to return to the historical principle of limiting the political influence of people who are guided by passions and to create an alternative economy that takes into account the knowledge of human nature, based on reasonableness and not greed.