Aurora Resonance – The Light of Correction

Just as the dawn refuses to be confined, but moves hesitantly across windows and thresholds, flowing into the workshops where hands bend and dreams intertwine with labor, so too does the ethic of shame spread. It transcends the closed circle of the private and reaches toward the public sphere, where voices meet — sometimes fragile, sometimes loud, yet always bound together in difference. In this gesture it becomes visible that every act belongs to a greater house: that of community, of the polis, of the world. And time and again, in these microcosms, the light of the aurora awakens — not as humiliation, but as correction; not as price, but as remembrance; not as end, but as ever-renewed beginning.

Title:
The Divine as Horizon: Zambrano, Weil, Campo, and Heidegger on Economy and Meaning
A Hermeneutical Reading of the Degraded Divine and the Monetary Substitution in the Modern Economy

Abstract:
This paper investigates how the divine manifests itself in the contemporary economy, not as transcendence, but as its degraded surrogate: money. Modern economic rationality reduces value to price and freedom to consumption, thereby transforming the economy into a secular theology with its own idols, rituals, illusions, and promises. Drawing on María Zambrano’s razón poética, Simone Weil’s notion of dé-création and attention, Cristina Campo’s ritual of perfection, and Martin Heidegger’s concepts of temporality and the unappropriable, an alternative framework is proposed in which the economy regains its existential depth.

At the core of this alternative stands the figure of the value-created human being, who resists reduction to the homo economicus and embodies freedom through creation, attention, beauty, and receptivity. Within this perspective, shaming emerges as a crucial ethical horizon practice: not as humiliation, but as a humanizing boundary that restores measure and proportion where markets and institutions fail. Shaming exposes where money and power shamelessly dominate, reorienting the economy toward human dignity. It functions as a subtle brake on excessive accumulation and opens a space for a relational economy in which social recognition and moral responsibility take precedence. As both pedagogical and political instrument, shaming embeds razón poética into social practice and transforms the economy into a field of ethical resonance.

By integrating cosmological insights of creation and discontinuity, the evolutionary logic of contingency, and the human struggle between fear and transcendence, the economy is re-imagined as a sphere of meaning, care, and poetic presence. The “divine in the economy” thus appears not as possession or certainty, but as horizon and gift — a call to ground the economy in freedom and human dignity and to form the value-created human being through creation, attention, beauty, and responsibility.

Keywords:
Razón poética (María Zambrano); value-created human being; shaming; ethical horizon practice; contingency; horizon; dé-création (Simone Weil); poetic economy; human dignity; temporality; secular theology; the unappropriable (Martin Heidegger); ritual of perfection (Cristina Campo).