Humanism and Profit-Seeking

Humanism puts the Well-Being of the Whole before the Profits of Individuals.  It essentially constitutes a Moral inversion of centuries.  It is arguably the decisive political issue in the United States of the moment.  It may seem similar to superficial positions.  But the significant point of distinction from those positions is if Profit-Seeking remains an option, then the Moral status quo is being maintained.

Global Capitalism and Global Electric Media

The term Global has come into currency via McCluhan, for whom it signifies Electric Communications. For him it signifies a contrast with Print Media, which has dominated Human society for centuries, beginning with the Gutenberg Era.  But he does quite comprehend the Individualism that that that that domination has bred, nor, in particular, the economic domination that it has enabled, e. g. the private property of the page in front of oneself.  In contrast, in Global telecommunication, interaction is shared and collective, a expression of the commonality of the electric medium.  Of course, the medium is still used for private mercenary purposes.  But as is the case with the Print Media, which is taking centuries to slowly become obsolete, so, too, is the use of Global Electric media to promote Global Capitalism.

Globalism and Economics

The term 'Globalism' is most commonly used as 'trans-Nationalist', and hardly signifying 'Global' at all. 'Global' connotes a holistic concept, whereas 'trans-Nationalist' is an Atomist concept, signifying as it did centuries ago, a conjunction of National markets.  Likewise, most 'Globalism' these days promotes trans-Nationalism, the Holism of which is betrayed by some Nationalist failure, notably protectionist, such as the recent Brexit.  In contrast, Globalism, connoting a Whole, begins as an Organic concept, and derives the economic well-being of its Parts from that Whole.  Plainly, Human society is a long way from real 'Global economics'.

Humanism and Humanity

The concept of Humanism requires a concept of Human, and thus far, the most prominent concept of Human is that of Evolutionism.  Thus, Humanism is a Species concept.  Accordingly, one mode of De-Humanization is social fragmentation, i. e. Individualization.  In other words, only the promotion of the Whole of the Species qualifies as Humanism.  Conversely, the promotion of fragmentation deprives all of a society, even those who benefit in some respect, of their Humanity.

Organism and Humanism

If a Species is the basic unit, and one of its Members is an Organism, then a Species can be conceived as a Super-Organism.  Likewise, an Organism that is part of a Organism is a Sub-Organism.  Super-Organism, Organism, Sub-Organism, are not absolute terms, just relative to one another.  They constitute a conceptual scheme necessitated by the jettisoning of Atomism, which is inadequate to Biological representation.  Thus, because Human Society is an organization of Biological beings, Political and Economical problems need to be represented in Organist terms if they are to solved according to Humanist principles.  Hitherto that has generally not been the case.  Instead, Human society has generally been interpreted as Atomist, i. e. as Individualist, with solutions to conflicts generally disjunctive.  Dialectics have attempted to present synthetic solutions, but these solutions are inadequate to a Biological concept of society, constituted by Organisms of varying degrees of complexity, the basic Atomism of which are still its fundamental terms.  In other words, in contrast with Evolutionism, Marxism remains an system of Individuals rather than of Species, and, hence, not committed to Humanist principles, even as they fight exploitation.

Philosophy, Organism, Political-Economy

The concept of Organism is only a recent appearance in Modern Philosophy, and the way it is treated is an indication of its inadequacy to what Evolutionism entails.  The two most prominent concepts of it are from Kant and Whitehead, and they share a combination of it, despite some differences, in terms of Efficient Causality and Teleological Causality.  So, in neither of these prominent cases, does Life, nor a One-Many structure seem, involved.  In other words, they seem bogged down by what seems to be irrelevant ancient Causality.  Spinoza at least seems occasionally to involve Formal Causality and Material Causality, which opens up the possibility of a One-Many analysis, though, he never seems to decide whether his concept of a Mode is an Atomist construction, or a Holist construction.  In either case, he never considers the possibility that the Species is the basic unit.  Consequently, Modern Philosophy has lacked the conceptual resources to resolve the Political and Economic problems that have been besetting Global society for the past several centuries.

Organism, Brexit, NAFTA

As has been previously discussed, Evolutionism establishes the concept of Organism as the fundamental unit of the Human species.  It is thus a Global unit, a Cosmopolis, with respect to Nations are Parts.  Nationalist Economics and Globalist Economics are incompatible, so, for example, the recent Brexit, and the upgrade of NAFTA, merely shift the incompatibility from Global Capitalism.  In order to eliminate the incompatibility completely, a radical adjustment is required--to an Organic concept of it.