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Thursday, June 18, 2009
An extremely interesting thing in this week's TLS: “Money makes the (Greek) world go round”...
An entirely new feature of money is that its possession renders unnecessary in principle all pre-monetary forms of social relationship: reciprocity, redistribution, kinship, ritual, and so on. Money allows you to fulfil all your needs. It provides the power to increase itself. And it tends to promote predatory isolation. Hence the focus of much Athenian tragedy on the extreme isolation of the individual – from the gods and even (through killing) from his closest kin.
Labels: Greeks and Romans, Money
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posted by P. Drāno at 10:41 AM
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