Weekend reading.
Naked Capitalism
Michael Hudson: Plato, Aristophanes and Aristotle on Money-Lust, 399-380 BC
Naked Capitalism
Michael Hudson: Plato, Aristophanes and Aristotle on Money-Lust, 399-380 BC
Michael Hudson | President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Guest Professor at Peking University
4 comments:
“Money lust “ is a figure of speech based on Roman pantheon... did Plato have a time machine?
Did they have a market fetish way back then?
Well the Greeks had “philargurion” which was ‘fondness for silver’ which argurion is not a figure of speech it was the term for cupelled silver which was/ is a real substance...
So dummy Hudson is making a reification error and thinks a figure of speech created centuries later as a transliteration of the Roman name of a goddess in their pantheon is a real thing...
Tyche, in Greek religion, the goddess of chance, with whom the Roman Fortuna was later identified; a capricious dispenser of good and ill fortune.
Nowadays, when Tyche dispenses good fortune, it's accompanied by a cash register sound.
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