Chapter 20 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
Ethical Ideas and Their Rhetoric Mattered
June 21st, 2010
To say it in a little more detail: In Dante’s time a market was viewed as an occasion for sin. Holiness in 1300 was earned by prayers and charitable works, whereas buying low and selling high was deemed a great danger to the soul. As the holier-than-thou Albigensians in southern France put it a century (more…)
