A MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSESSMENT OF CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND POSTMODERN HAPPINESS

Abstract

While the modern world prioritizes continued capital accumulation and economic gain-driven growth, postmodern society now tries to make people happy by valuing environmental protection, diversity and cultural identity. The old paradigm suggested that happiness would occur when the mind was based on natural law and not biased toward a particular idea. While all pure celestial religions suggest sharing and helping the poor leaning on the argument that everything is transient in this world, the practice does not seem to be in compliance with the theory due to human greed and tendency towards capital accumulation and self-satisfaction with egoistic characteristics. This study, as multidisciplinary research on economics, psychology, and theology aims to answer, ‘Does joy require objectivity according to postmodern philosophy?’. We try to ask some key questions around the keywords and thus make assessments on the pursuit of happiness suitable in the cyber-capitalist and digital era in the light of literature knowledge. It is argued if it is necessary to adapt creational objectives and logical ideas to our understanding of ‘real happiness’ to make the most appropriate use of life capital that is the sole source of happiness from point of view of Divine bounty particularly in the Islamic references.

Keywords

• multidisciplinary approach
• capital accumulation
• happiness
• Divine bounty
• Post-modernism

SERMAYE BİRİKİMİ VE POSTMODERN MUTLULUĞUN ÇOK DİSİPLİNSEL BİR DEĞERLENDİRMESİ

Abstract

Modern dünya sürekli sermaye birikimine ve ekonomik kazanç odaklı büyümeye öncelik verirken, postmodern toplum artık çevrenin korunmasına, çeşitliliğe ve kültürel kimliğe değer vererek insanları mutlu etmeye önem vermektedir. Eski paradigma, zihnin doğal yasaya dayandığı ve belirli bir fikre karşı önyargılı olmadığı zaman mutluluğun gerçekleşeceğini öne sürmekteydi. Bütün saf semavi dinler, bu dünyada her şeyin geçici olduğu argümanına dayanarak paylaşmayı ve yardım etmeyi önerirken, insan açgözlülüğü ve sermaye birikimi ve egoist özelliklerle kendini tatmin etme eğilimi nedeniyle uygulamalar teoriyle uyumlu olmamıştır. Ekonomi, psikoloji ve teoloji üzerine multidisipliner bir araştırma olan bu çalışma, postmodern felsefeye göre ‘mutluluk nesnellik gerektirir mi?’ sorusunu yanıtlamayı amaçlamaktadır. Anahtar kelimeler etrafında bazı anahtar sorular sorarak literatür bilgisi ışığında siber-kapitalist ve dijital çağa uygun mutluluk arayışı üzerine genel değerlendirmeler yapılmaktadır. Bilhassa İslami referanslarda, mutluluğun yegâne kaynağı olan hayat sermayesini bir ilahi lütuf açısından en uygun şekilde kullanmak için yaratılış amaçlarını ve mantıklı düşünceleri ‘gerçek mutluluk’ anlayışına uyarlamanın gerekli olup olmadığı çok boyutlu olarak tartışılmaktadır.

Keywords

• multidisipliner yaklaşım
• sermaye birikimi
• mutluluk
• ilahi lütuf
• Postmodernizm

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