Comments on: Following Aristotle to Saint Thomas Aquinas: commerce and usury http://scarcityrent.com/2007/04/12/following-aristotle-to-saint-thomas-aquinas-commerce-and-usury/ Digressive thoughts from an engineer & economist going for an MBA ;) Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:15:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ideals matter: shipwreck survivors, Rawls and Nozick « Gabriel’s scarcity rent http://scarcityrent.com/2007/04/12/following-aristotle-to-saint-thomas-aquinas-commerce-and-usury/#comment-333 Wed, 16 May 2007 15:27:57 +0000 http://gabrielbcn.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/following-aristotle-to-saint-thomas-aquinas-commerce-and-usury/#comment-333 [...] Egalitarian liberalism tries to lever the playing field. It tries to identify which are the legitimate trades and which are not. (Remember the blog entry on Aristotle?) [...]

]]> By: Nach http://scarcityrent.com/2007/04/12/following-aristotle-to-saint-thomas-aquinas-commerce-and-usury/#comment-193 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:38:03 +0000 http://gabrielbcn.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/following-aristotle-to-saint-thomas-aquinas-commerce-and-usury/#comment-193 (That’s the right place to answer about the negative “pathos”)
I was surprised after reading about Aristotle and Saint Thomas. Perhaps my negative perception about the iced world of economy is an echo of some ideas that you expose (plus the topics). You gave me a friendly way to approach (I enjoy it): it’s the first time I stop to think about :)
I see it through art experience and I see it as a dehumanized bad play. On the other hand a general and simple vision: money, commerce, consumption and consumerism. Dark age.
But I know it’s a simple vision: days ago reading an old article about the perspective from Middle Ages to Quattrocento I found that commerce was very improtant in perspective developing and art aesthetics: Piero della Francesca wrote a treatise for merchants called “De Abacus”. Painters and merchants walked together developing the mathematics and a new era. Vermeer was merchant too (more merchant than painter at Saint Luke’s Guild).

Nowadays it’s another history :x (I return to my pessimistic vision of economy-economics).

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