Aristotle and Aquinas on the Virtue of Money as a Preservative of Justice in Business Affairs and States

• Authors: Redpath Peter A.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

While Aristotle’s and St. Thomas’s teachings about economics are often ridiculed today, this article argues that actually what they had to say about this issue, especially about the nature of sound currency, backed up by force of law, is quite profound. According to both of them, sound money plays an essential role in the preserving commutative justice within States. By so doing, it preserves communication between talented people who make qualitatively unequal contributions to a State’s continued existence and welfare.

Keywords

EN

money; communication; commutative; contribution; convention; currency; demand; equality; exchange; hierarchy; human; inequality; just; justice; law; life; measure; natural; nomos; numerical; preservation; proportionate; proportionality; use; value; virtue

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 885-890

Dates

published

2019-12-30

Contributors

author

Redpath Peter A.

• Aquinas School of Leadership, Cave Creek, AZ, USA

References

• Aquinas, St. Thomas. Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle. Translated by C. I. Litzinger with a Foreword by Ralph M. McInerny. Notre Dame, Ind.: Dumb Ox Books, 1993.
• Redpath, Peter A. The Moral Psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas: An Introduction to Ragamuffin Ethics. St. Louis, Mo.: En Route Books & Media, 2017.

Identifiers

ISSN

2300-0066

ISSN

2577-0314

DOI

10.26385/SG.080436