Abstract
This chapter continues and deepens the development of the notion of the care of the soul as transformative praxis’s emphasis on human freedom and the incompleteness of human freedom in every aspect of its actualization, the citizens’ focus on the care of the soul as the fulfillment of human freedom and not the curtailment of it. This is freedom as the potentiality to not-do that enacts disordering order as the countervailing power to the freedom of finance capital as creative destruction. This kind of freedom attunes the soul to thrive on volatility and nonconformity. Instead of trying to protect the soul of the twenty-first-century man and woman from the uncertainty and turbulence of finance capital and failing, we would do better to prepare today’s citizens to benefit from uncertainty, volatility, and the unexpected.
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Wariboko, N. (2014). Care of the Soul: Resistance to Finance Capital as Virtue. In: Economics in Spirit and Truth. Radical Theologies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137475503_8
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