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globally spread around has more advantages than disadvantages, it seems, since it exposes them to a more variegated testing ground: a purification by the variety of cultures in the world. This section presents in its pages a kind of experiment. In the first article, Georges De Schrijver, Emeritus Professor and guest professor at the Ateneo de Manila University (The Philippines) and other places, presents his comments on the Christian origin of Liberation Theology, as it is lived in South America. This original context is so different from the Chinese context that the encounter with Marxism in both continents implies very important differences. The second article is an academic lecture given by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, on the encounter between “Market Economy and Ethics”. Already at that time the requisites of ethics in the market economy, as it is conceived by extreme liberal capitalism, were thought by the speaker to be philosophically grounded. In the face of these present years’ crisis, many economists would agree.
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