POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Theocracy, Real Country, Free Rider Problem
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Acquires things based on their use value, not for their profit. Interest (togos; also means offspring) is money born of money. Offspring are natural but metal doesn"t have offspring; its unnatural. Modern economics means to prohibit interest is to prohibit banking. Aristotle thinks money should just be for the sake of use, not for leisure (freedom to en- gage in politics, friendship, and philosophy. Life of economic stability at a good level (one that supports the above 3) is a good life, to strive for more is unnatural. Thales, man who rented the olive presses offseason because he used philosophy to predict a good year. Didn"t want to make money but to prove that philosophy was useful. Rule of husband over wife is not monarchic like that of parents over children. Since both parents are monarchic rulers over children, then the wife is equal to the father. The wife is both equal and unequal to the husband.
