What are we trying to achieve?
Shunya connects economic arrangements to desire, dignity, freedom and the meaning of a good life. The discussions return to housing, work, education and money rather than drifting into detached abstraction.
International discussion circle
A philosopher from India; a Japanese scholar of contemplative traditions; an African ethicist; a Latin American community practitioner; a European historian of ideas. These are proposed fictional participants.
The economic conclusion
What needs are real, which are cultivated, and what institutions make people dependent? How should a society compare material gain with time, autonomy and human relationships?
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