https://thejosias.net/2017/06/05/usury/ Non declinavit ad dextram sive ad sinistram. Wed, 21 Mar 2018 07:46:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.2 https://thejosias.net/2017/06/05/usury/#comment-536 Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:21:38 +0000 https://thejosias.net/?p=2338#comment-536 […] The first of these questions (q. 77), divided into four articles, deals with fraud in the broad sense (fraudulentia), while the second (q. 78) concerns usury. A study of these questions reveals important differences not only between St. Thomas’ teaching on injustices committed in economic life and the ethical attitudes common today, but differences in basic evaluations of the place of commerce in society. In order to make this clear, I will look at the first question, no. 77, setting forth first what Aquinas taught and then contrasting it with commerce and business ethics as these exist in a capitalist society. (For a discussion of question 78, on usury, see “The Sin of Usury.”) […]

]]> https://thejosias.net/2017/06/05/usury/#comment-537 Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:21:38 +0000 https://thejosias.net/?p=2338#comment-537 […] The first of these questions (q. 77), divided into four articles, deals with fraud in the broad sense (fraudulentia), while the second (q. 78) concerns usury. A study of these questions reveals important differences not only between St. Thomas’ teaching on injustices committed in economic life and the ethical attitudes common today, but differences in basic evaluations of the place of commerce in society. In order to make this clear, I will look at the first question, no. 77, setting forth first what Aquinas taught and then contrasting it with commerce and business ethics as these exist in a capitalist society. (For a discussion of question 78, on usury, see “The Sin of Usury.”) […]

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