Money and sociality: Measuring the unmeasurable money as justice, time and usury
Levinas confirms: a reflection about a money as a social and economical reality is not possible without a serious analysis of empirical data. On the other hand, this reflection always involves something else, so a money is never a merely economical category. In that sense, Levinas proposes...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Filozofija i Društvo |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2016/0353-57381604938J.pdf |
| Summary: | Levinas confirms: a reflection about a money as a social and economical
reality is not possible without a serious analysis of empirical data. On the
other hand, this reflection always involves something else, so a money is
never a merely economical category. In that sense, Levinas proposes an
intriguing meditation about some “dimensions” of a money in the western
tradition. Contrary to the traditional moral condemnation of a money - which
however remains unquestionable because of the fact that a man always carries
a risk of becoming a merchandise - Levinas suggests that money never simply
means a reification, but always implies some positive dimensions. Levinas
suggests that a money is not something morally bad or simply neutral covering
human relationships, but rather a condition of human community. Furthermore,
he claims that a money is a fundament of the justice. A money makes possible
a community, he explains, because it opens up the dimension of the future,
and implies the existence of human beings who give themselves a credit; a
credit understood as a time and a confidence. We shall try to address some
problems implied by this thesis, particularly the problem of the relationship
between time, money and credit. Finally, we are going to ask whether this
credit - inseparable from the very essence of the money - is not always
already a sort of usury. |
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| ISSN: | 0353-5738 2334-8577 |