In Search for the Soul of International Business

Preface

Where Is the Soul?

Rev. Edward Horkan

“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” So asked the great poet T.S. Elliott in 1934. These questions are more applicable now than ever, in a time when so many people and so much of society are exclusively engaged in so-called practical pursuits of advancing in the world, knowing the latest fads and trends, and pursuing the gods of wealth and technology. We need to take a step back and ask, as Blessed Pope Paul VI and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI did in their encyclical letters Populorum Progressio (1967) and Caritas in Veritate (2009), what makes for real development and progress? Is it simply having ...