Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Capitalism and Spiritualism

The concept of the incorporeal soul is Atomistic in two respects.  First, absent a body, it is free of the reproductive organs that tie it to the other members of the species, and, second, insofar as a soul can be 'saved' or reincarnated, its fate is isolated from the fate of the souls of other members of the species.  Now, as Berkeley shows, Phenomenalism is equivalent to Spiritualism.  Thus, Smith's Capitalism, which is a system of Phenomenalist Atomism, is essentially a spiritualization of Economics, as the concept of an Invisible Hand that mediates relations in that realm only underscores.

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