Mounier

Obviously the term goes back to the Renaissance, but it would also include modern-day thinkers such as Mounier or recently deceased Paul Ricoeur.

Philocrites: 'Christian humanism': Broader than liberal Protestantism. 2005

We are still actively looking for an industrial location, said Jean-Baptiste Mounier , a spokesman for Peugeot-Citroen.

Peugeot-Citroen Still Scouting for India Site Nikhil Gulati 2011

Take from Mondragon the distributist lessons it has for us irrespective of our current disappointments or the differing circumstances in which we may find ourselves, and we may at last move forward along the path to which Belloc, Mounier, Arizmendiarrieta and so many more have directed us.

Archive 2009-02-01 Tom Laney 2009

Personalism, promoted by a wide variety of often clashing thinkers ranging from Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) to Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950), emerged from principles familiar to the student of Lamennais, including a favorable judgment of all cultures and movements reflecting a special "energy" or "mystique" indicating the presence of the fount of all vitality, the Holy Spirit.

Catholic Social Thought: Europe 2008

When Gates writes, "We are all now buffeted by a global economy in which key actors are encouraged, even mandated, to maximize financial returns in a worldwide auction of sorts in which financial values have become a substitute for the values of ethics, religion and community," and that "Money, not man, is fast becoming the measure of the common good" The Ownership Solution, p. xxi., he sounds very like Mounier.

Economic Personalism is a Fraud: The Solution to Capitalism 2007

Mounier echoed the teachings of the popes on the primacy of labor over capital.

Economic Personalism is a Fraud: The Solution to Capitalism 2007

How can we realistically set out as Mounier suggests 'to implant in the vital organs, at present diseased, of our decadent civilisation the seeds and the ferment of a new civilisation'?

Distributism: Past, Present and Future 2007

We can readily understand what Mounier means by the primacy of the economic when we think of the tremendous pressure brought upon people to buy and posssess things, live a certain life style and always reach for the highest level of comfort.

Economic Personalism is a Fraud: The Solution to Capitalism 2007

Mounier understood the problem of neoconservatives who have never had to live in poverty or never had any contact with the poor: Intellectuals unaccustomed to the crudity of certain realities, men of too great lesiure who do not understand the force of material constraints… forget that the initiatives of individual are embodied in institutions, both their short-comings and their determinisms, that new objects call for new knowledge.

Economic Personalism is a Fraud: The Solution to Capitalism 2007

When Gates names as worship, a "secular sanctification of market forces" the attitude people worldwide are developing toward financial returns, he reminds us again of Mounier, who understood that it was the lack of a "philosophy of life" which allowed people to accept the primacy of economics over all else.

Economic Personalism is a Fraud: The Solution to Capitalism 2007