Equality and Measurability Exchanges according to Aristotle

Authors

  • Adriana Santos Tabosa

Keywords:

measurability, ethics, equality, exchange

Abstract

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle talks about justice in relationships of exchange within the limits of a community. We analyze the question of currency exchange to see how a society can, in a permanent and fair fashion, deal with the private relationships that arise between men and external properties, and we will investigate what is involved in the nature of measurement. For in this form of relationship a koinonia cannot exist between two physicians or between people who have the same profession, but only between different people. The product, however, of their activities must be equivalent…

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Section

Communications