Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: If the virtus of antiquity was strength, bravery and courage, and in Modernity, diligence, work, merit and effort, today the commoditas has been installed, a kind of nihilistic pseudo-virtue that claims the idleness, radical egalitarianism, and entertainment. Contemporary postmodern society has surpassed both Greco-Roman philosophical metaphysics and Christian theology, both rationalism and enlightened empiricism, as well as romantic-decadent idealism and materialist positivism, so society has entered a sort of end of history of self-indulgent and self-satisfied playful nihilism. We conclude that commoditas is here to stay and will reconfigure the nature of the human being based on a new mentality that pales tradition to the point of practically annulling it.
Author: Javier Espino Martín
Institution: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4296844922