Sublime

Emerson wrote in his famous essay “Gifts,” the “law of benefits is a dangerous channel.”

Eventually, two women adopted her and explained that all such gifts did have to be returned. It would be entirely inappropriate to simply accept three eggs from a neighbor and never bring anything back. One did not have to bring back eggs, but one should bring something back of approximately the same value. One could even bring money—there was noth

Philosophie antique, psychologie moderne

On reproche fréquemment aux hommes de tourner leurs vœux principalement vers l’argent et de l’aimer plus que tout au monde. Pourtant il est bien naturel, presque inévitable d’aimer ce qui, pareil à un protée infatigable, est prêt à tout instant à prendre la forme de l’objet actuel de nos souhaits si mobiles ou de nos besoins si divers. Tout autre b

Nothing is mine or yours, all is ours. When you give to someone, you will receive from others; when you receive, you will feel the need to give even more. The energy keeps going.

Contrary to many popular ideas, the end of this asceticism was to be able to lead an alert, intelligent life: the most urgent task the destruction of spontaneous, impulsive enjoyment, the most important means was to bring order into the conduct of its adherents.

The core argument is that any attempt to separate monetary policy from social policy is ultimately wrong. Primordial-debt theorists insist that these have always been the same thing. Governments use taxes to create money, and they are able to do so because they have become the guardians of the debt that all citizens have to one another. This debt i