POSSIBILITIES OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL VALUES

Vujović, Slavoljub and Stanić Jovanović, Sara and Šolević, Milorad (2025) POSSIBILITIES OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL VALUES. In: CHALENGES FACING RELIGION AND THE CHURCH IN POSTMODERN DIGITAL SOCIETY. Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade, p. 56. ISBN 978-86-7093-289-0

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Abstract

A pressing planetary problem – the cause of socio-economic inequalities, the issue of distribution and redistribution of newly created value has accompanied the economy since its inception, reaching large proportions in the 21st century, especially in the developed countries where the world’s financial and political centers of power are located. The question is, what impact did the greatest (or, one of the greatest) civilizational breakthroughs have on this problem – the meeting of Jews and Greeks in ancient times? The direct proportion of economic inequalities and the control of capital by large corporations, raises the question: has the technical and technological progress throughout the twentieth century led to economic progress, or has it led to the creation of inequality? Practice sees the state as the culprit, in the sense that the state does not function properly, allowing individuals to steal from others and create enormous wealth. Does the use of the state by corporations open the door to Malthusian theory – the need for wars and natural disasters in the interests of big capital? Inequalities as a consequence of corruption, or the non-functioning of the state, are the antithesis of the need and guidelines for the functioning of the state, explains Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Spiritual development, according to the teachings of the Russian Orthodox Church (T. Shevkunov), takes human dignity as the basic, starting value of the overall development of society, as a value prerequisite for all other values, which is not the case with economic development

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