Economía y libertad. Diálogo entre Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez y Eduardo Nicol

Abstract

We explain the meaning of a Sanchez Vazquez’s criticism about Nicol, namely, that the philosophy of the latter separates the being of man and his economic base. In accordance with our approach, this criticism expresses a difference of emphasis, not a fundamental disagreement, on the grounds that both philosophers reject the strong economic determinism but instead accept that economy is a necessary condition for the other social structures, and because both Nicol and Sanchez Vazquez agree with the idea that man produces his own being through the creation of distinctive human needs.