Abstract

"Dialectical Polarity between Freedom and Necessity in Economic Activity in the Light of the Work of Antonio Millán-Puelles": In the light of the work of Antonio Millán-Puelles, the article seeks to discuss the correlations between human needs, welfare and freedom in their most basic forms of economic praxis. The reason for such correlations lies in the corporeal mediation of economic activity which is already present at the level of their subsistence; this mediation is that on which the very fact of economic experience depends. Following the phenomenology of economic activity, the article also discusses the consciousness of designing, previous to production, and the self-determination of a designer. It concludes that the correlations between human needs, welfare and freedom are all based on anthropology that does not reduce man to a mere body or a mere cogito.