I have just proposed to the economists and econometricians to study the notion of 'décroissance' translated as ungrowth or in better words negative growth. Many philosophers have studied the negative growth, the idea of sobriety at the level of the individual. 'Whoever loves wealth will never be satisfied with more income'. Nicolas Ridoux asserted that we must learn to ask ourselves: what to do and why to act instead of how to act. Every student knows that the method of research is always secondary to the purpose of the research. We crave for more means without understanding deeply what is the purpose and why we employ these means and not other ones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9o6Q4M7sQ&feature=related
Paul Ariès "Décroissance et société de gratuité“ Here you can watch a presentation on the same theme: Negative growth and the society of the gratuitousness.
http://vimeo.com/41846125
Hi Emanuela, I am just going to bookmark this so that I can come back to it later. Thank you. Kind regards, William
Negative Thought is the outcome of our mind .It is through our mind only that we may prove worthy of our life in every of our action our mind joins with our conscious mind & it is this conscious mind which may be the root cause of our negative growth as our mind has a tendency while carrying out our action very often goes to our nature of Anger,Greed,Attachment,Ego ,Jealousy & such other ideas .In such case it is obvious that our action may not reflect us to a right road..
Philosophy moves towards the road to a path which is the basic essence of our life & for which we have to take a recourse to meditation ,& power of prayer .
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