Thomas v. Aquin zum Diskont und ungerechtfertigtem Zins

verfasst von BillyGoatGruff, 06.10.2002, 22:32

-->Fundstück zur Diskussion hier vor wenigen Wochen.
Stützt dottore's Hypothese, dass der Diskont die ursprüngliche Form des Zinses war.
Vielleicht mag er einen Kommentar dazu abzugeben, da er das Mittelalter besser kennt als ich!



St. Thomas of Aquinas (1225-1274) [i]made a distinction between the rate of interest and the discount rate<i/>, if only indirectly, and considered the discounting of short-term bills of exchange an admissible commercial practice. This is further proof that the ire of the canonists in condemning usury was not directed against interest-taking in general, but against illicit interest-taking, that is, against the practice of illicit interest arbitrage carried on under the disguise of bill trading. The scholastic fathers were the first to point out that many of these bills had been fraudulently drawn. Seen in this light, and with the necessary semantic adjustments, the whole controversy surrounding the usury problem becomes a rational and highly sophisticated attempt on the part of the scholastic philosophers, who had the best training in economics and finance of their days, to root out unaccepted commercial behavior. They were trying to fend off a great danger threatening society that, unknown even to them, [b]might not deliver its final blow for hundreds of years, but when it ultimately did, it would cause damage of Apocalyptic dimensions<b/>. The scholastic fathers had an Apocalyptic vision something that we, in the twenty-first century, tend to ridicule.


Quelle: http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_02/fekete100702.html

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• Thomas v. Aquin zum Diskont und ungerechtfertigtem Zins - BillyGoatGruff, 06.10.2002, 22:32
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