Sense Attitudes and Their Role in History. The Genesis of Capitalism
Abstract
For normal life, man needs not only to satisfy his physiological requirements. He needs also over personal senses of life. And this requirement is no less acute. A man receives such senses from spiritual-ideological sphere, which includes religions, ideologies, philosophic-ethical teachings, sense attitudes. Its evolution is mostly independently, regardless of the development of technology, production, institutions. The causes of historical events and processes are both technological and economic development and socio-psychological attitudes that dominate in a particular community (people, organizations, social layer). In the twentieth century, the main historical processes were determined by the development and confrontation of ideologies of capitalism and socialism. Now the influence of both these ideologies has become much weaker. The article presents the development of the capitalist system, with the emphasis on the role of the dominant sense attitude setting. The picture of the beginning of the XXI century is given – the situation of spiritual and ideological uncertainty, the way out of which depends on the solution of the most acute modern problems.
About the Author
Victor A. Volkonsky
Institute of National Economy Forecasting, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Volkonsky V.A. Sense Attitudes and Their Role in History. The Genesis of Capitalism. Economics of Contemporary Russia. 2018;(3):142-156. (In Russ.)
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