 The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest.  Economica - Side 1051921Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Aristotle - 1885 - 588 sider
...hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, Usury the 5 and not from the natural use of it. For money was...intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at moneyinterest. And this term usury [rcfcos], which means the birth of money from money, is applied... | |
 | Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett - 1885 - 468 sider
...which is justly censured ; for it tra eis unnatural, and a mode by which men gain from one another. The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, Usury the 5 and not from the natural use of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but... | |
 | Aristotle - 1885 - 464 sider
...which is justly censured ; for it tr "' is unnatural, and a mode by which men gain from one another. The .most hated sort, and with the greatest reason,...is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, Usury the 5 and not from the natural use of it. For money was in- nloneyfrom tended to be used in exchange,... | |
 | Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett - 1885 - 466 sider
...exchange which is justly censured ; for it tr is unnatural, and a mode by which men gain from one another. The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, Usury the 5 and not from the natural use of it. For money was in- m^ynfru°m tended to be used in exchange,... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - 1893 - 826 sider
...interest, as at present. The opinion of many classical writers is illustrated by Aristotle's dictum that " money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest." During the greater part of the middle ages the authority and teaching of the church was set definitely... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1893 - 290 sider
...1890) : "From Aristotle onward, who laid down the principle that money was in itself unfruitful, that 'money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase in interest,' — from the Canon Law, according to which 'loan interest is simply an income which the... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - 1908 - 746 sider
...interest, as at present. The opinion of many classical writers is illustrated by Aristotle's dictum that " money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest." During the greater part of the middle ages the authority and teaching of the church was set definitely... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - 1910 - 730 sider
...interest, as at present. The opinion of many classical writers is illustrated by Aristotle's dictum that " money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest." During the greater part of the middle ages the authority and teaching of the church was set definitely... | |
 | Paul Henry Nystrom - 1915 - 424 sider
..." The most hated sort, and with greatest reason, is usury (charging interest for the use of money) which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural use of it." 8 Cicero went so far as to claim that no one could be proficient as a merchant without lying. " Nihil... | |
 | Sir Richard Winn Livingstone - 1916 - 488 sider
...life, and continues to exist for the sake of a good life?"1 Or the objection to usury, "because it makes a gain out of money itself and not from the natural use of it " ? 3 Who has more trenchantly criticised those who devote themselves to piling up money, "intent upon... | |
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