CHREMATISTICS AS THE FOUNDATION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CAPITALISM IN THE MIRROR OF PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION
The article considers an adequate description and explanation of the real complexity of the economic activity of modern society is impossible if you only see the acts of the “economic person” striving for profit. This strategy is only one of the habitus acting on business entities. Based on a comparison of the corresponding ideas of thinkers of different eras, the author substantiates that the political economy of modern capitalism is chrematistics as an object of criticism of Aristotle, K. Marx and many others. After all, the main goal of such housekeeping (and the corresponding doctrine) is an 2021 unlimited accumulation of personal wealth, symbolizing money as the highest value, which can be evaluated as a rational motive only in those societies where the actions of people are largely regulated by the corresponding habitus.