THE STANDARD, MONEY, AND FREEDOM

ISBN-13: 9786208488321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 252 str.

Nguyen Anh Quoc

Opis

This book is a philosophical exploration of human existence in the age where norms, money, and power increasingly dominate life. It begins from a radical yet simple point: man is not an abstract ideal or a mere rational spirit, but a living being-embodied, creative, and bound to others. From this foundation, it examines how norms, born as conditions of coexistence, can both safeguard justice and legitimize domination, depending on how they are shaped and enforced. Money, initially a tool of exchange, has turned into a force that defines value and reduces dignity to price, alienating people from their own labor and creativity. Yet the book resists despair: within every constraint lies the possibility of freedom, within alienation the potential for self-recovery. Through a realist methodology, it interrogates the tension between necessity and freedom, value and price, constraint and creation, showing that philosophy must return to life itself-not as abstract theory but as a practice of questioning, responsibility, and liberation. Ultimately, it is a call to reconstruct a more human order where truth, justice, and freedom can take root in everyday existence.