Law of Profit and Moral Freedom

This paper proposes a foundational theoretical model of causality based on the ontological extension of the concept of "profit." Far from narrow economic-capitalist definitions, profit is defined as the conceptual expression of the universal law of self-interest and self-preservation, applicable along a continuum ranging from the second law of thermodynamics (negentropic systems) to biological and psychological imperatives. Recognizing that all action oriented toward interest belongs to the domain of natural, heteronomous necessity — effectively rendering the agent a causal automaton —, this study identifies moral action as the sole genuine discontinuity in the causal fabric of the universe. Adopting a retroductive modus operandi analogous to that of the exact sciences (e.g., quantum physics), the moral law is inferred through the observation of a broad class of empirical and historical behavioral anomalies (e.g., Socrates, Jesus, Gandhi, Simone Weil, Saint Francis) that are irreducible to mere utility calculations or the cessation of suffering. The resulting freedom is defined not as a permanent state of human existence, but as a discrete, point-like event: the moment in which reason imposes a veto upon the natural impulse of interest to act according to universalizable principles. The model thus integrates two complementary causal regimes: natural necessity and "supra-natural" autonomy (understood in the strictly etymological sense of a causation that transcends physical-biological determinism). Ultimately, the moral act represents the only true manifestation of self-causality and self-determination for the rational agent.