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Often appears with: natural riches · money-getting · money, coin, and credit · household management and servants · household management · forms of government
Usually: reflection (1) · censure (1)
“And this is the explanation of the name (TOKOS), which means the breeding of money. For as offspring resemble their parents, so usury is money bred of money. Whence of all forms of money-making it is most against nature.” Aristotle, Politics: A Treatise on Government · insight
Aristotle decides that money-getting relates to household and state leadership only in certain ways, whereas usury is condemned because it breeds money from money instead of using it for exchange.
We have now determined what was before doubtful, whether or no the art of getting money is his business who is at the head of a family or a state, and though not strictly so, it is however very necessary; for as a politician does not make men, but receiving them from the hand of nature employs them to proper purposes; thus the earth, or the sea, or something else ought to supply them with provisions, and this it is t…