Ensayo sobre el posible aporte de la economía a la filosofía de la aspiración

Abstract

In this article we explore the contribution of political economy to philosophy conceived as philosophy of aspiration. In previous works we have argued that conceptual development of economic theory leads to philosophy. In this work, we understand philosophy as a part of social production devoted to organizing the field of culture into a coherent whole in order to develop the object of its greatest aspiration. In this context, we recapitulate the history of philosophy from the aspiration to the political order of the polis (Politeia) in its earliest expression, to the object of aspiration of present and future history resulting from the economic theory of planning. In this context, we show how the deliberate denial of the notion of aspiration in economic theory leads to the development of a new concept of aspiration mediated by the economic concept of planning. Likewise, in the incipient field of integrated scientific-philosophical research, we indicate the conditions for a strategy of social, economic, political and, finally, cultural transformations that eliminate step by step heteronomy in the historical process; and that conceive and develop new historical institutions in its place.