Entrepreneurship as a bridge between science and Orthodoxy

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleAntreprenoriatul ca punte între ştiinţă şi ortodoxie
3. lemma author Stavinschi, Alexandra
4. lemma category Integration - Modes of interaction - Various approaches to the problem of correlation between science and theology
5. Publication date 18-01-2017
6. lemma work Căbuz, Alexandru [Author]. Entrepreneurship as a bridge between science and Orthodoxy
7. lemma manifestations Dilema Veche
8. Keywords creativity - universal logos - entrepreneurship - rationalism
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    1. According to the author, human civilization is based on a delicate balance between rationality (systemic coherence) and irrationality (creative will). However, the undeniable success of scientific rationalism in the last four centuries led to an imbalance that is undermining, through relativisation, the Christian system of values that made them possible in the first place. The author argues that the lost harmony between science and the original values can be retrieved through entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is defined as the creative force of individual will to serve others, and as such, is common to both. While the paradigm of communism vs capitalism stems from the vision of Marxist social order that was imposed top-down by force (of capital or of the revolutionary state), entrepreneurship offers a vision of a bottom-up emerging social order. The lessons we learn from the best entrepreneurs are invariably based on passion, spirit of sacrifice, empathy towards other human beings, humility, vision, discernment, ambition and faith. The author is well aware that business is often driven by money; however, true entrepreneurship is not about making money but about creating something new from nothing, to the benefit of other people. He believes that great entrepreneurs, great researchers and great spiritual fathers are the stem cells of a living society. The scale of the laws governing the universe, from gravity to the principles of human psychology or political science, represents the invisible side, the “software” of nature that gives meaning to every form of existence. The importance of this software, ie the role of information in nature, has been known for thousands of years. For the author, “information” corresponds to the ancient “logos”. According to him, nowadays, St. John the Evangelist would have written: "In the beginning was the information [...]." Science and religion have the same ultimate goal, that is, to explore and deepen the universal “software”. For orthodoxy, in particular, the structure of the ladder to heaven is very clear, with Christ being the irrational leap (who gives life), and the Holy Spirit - the harmony and systemic coherence (who maintains life), both being subsumed in God the Father Almighty. Therefore Orthodoxy is the natural, living and creating dogma of continuous innovation/renewal through entrepreneurship and science. The ladder to heaven is reflected both in science and in orthodoxy because they both seek to bring people closer to the nature of things, ie God. The author goes on to discuss the gap in modern day to day life between "I want" and "I must". From this perspective Romanians seem to be located on a borderline. To the East there is an area dominated by the tyranny of authority (states imposing a wrong and inappropriate "must"), whereas the West is sliding towards the tyranny of personal comfort that equates "want" and "must" (raising passions to the status of law). To preserve the balance between these equally destructive tendencies, it is important to bring together in harmony the scientific and the orthodox views, so they can form a coherent whole. Entrepreneurship (and its bottom-up approach) is expected to play a central role, as it joins the nuclear energy of the individual will to serve the others with the scientific knowledge, constituting thus a natural living bridge between experience and abstraction. By building together this bridge, entrepreneurship, science and orthodoxy can engage in an upward converging trajectory that can be beneficial at all levels: economic, political, technological, geopolitical, moral and spiritual.