O demônio que emerge do casulo: Paul Tillich, Fritz Redlich e o demônico no empreendedorismo

Rafael Galvão De Almeida

No 669, Textos para Discussão Cedeplar-UFMG from Cedeplar, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Abstract: This article introduces to economic theology and to the studies of capitalism and religion the concept of the demonic, as understood by the theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich and the economic historian Fritz Redlich. The demonic is understood by Tillich as the “sacred antidivine”, a strength that creates through destruction and consumption of previous arrangements – what economists understand as creative destruction. Capitalist dynamism is possible due to demonic. Redlich applies the demonic to entrepreneurship, observing from the great 19th century American industrialists known as robber barons how their creativity led to disruption of society and reactions against them. The article concludes that entrepreneurship must become more self-aware, while promoting a creativity that is resistant to the demonic.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; economics and religion; economic theology; Paul Tillich; Fritz Redlich; critical entrepreneurship studies; demonic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B20 L26 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2024-07
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