Mark Curtis-Thames

The Metaphysics of Power

Philosophy

“Dr. Mansueto’s up-to-date essay sets out a community-building project with God as its ‘final cause,’ as its equivocal, non-sovereign moral attractor, and a ‘relational . . . generativity’ that grounds ‘rational autonomy and collective self-determination’ as its goal. He diagnoses the danger we face as the many ways an economic system that commodifies human beings justifies itself to us. His antidote is a global compound free of the logics and temptations of fascist authoritarianisms. An analysis and a challenge!”