Man and Wealth

Modern man has built a system of product that ravished nature and a type of society that mutilates man.

If only there were more and more wealth, everything else, it is thought, would fall into place. Money is considered to be all-powerful; if it could not actually buy non material values, such as justice, harmony, beauty or even health, it could circumvent the need for them or compensate for their loss.

The development of production and the acquisition of wealth have this becomes the highest goals of the modern world in relation to which all other goals, no matter how much lip-service may still be paid to them, have come to take second place.

This is the philosophy of materialism.

Man needs to find out the meaning of prudential, significantly called the mother of all other virtues, prudentia dicitur genitrix virtutum, which means knowing when enough is enough.

What, therefore, could be of greater importance today than the cultivation of prudence. Prudence comprises of the good, the truth and the beautifulis the type of realism which should be adopted as the highest aims of individual life.

The answer is simple as it is disconcerting, we can, each of us, work to put our own inner house in order.

All history – as well as all current experience – points to the fact that it is man, not nature, who provides the primary resource: that the key factor of all economic development comes out of the mind of a man. No-one may be able to say…