[lit-ideas] Hume and Geary on 'oil'
- From: Rhyme and Reason <rhymereason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 13:38:25 +1100
Thanks JL, for responding with such pertinence, promptness and =
pleasure.
It was something along those lines . Hume speaks here of the =
relationship=20
between money and commercial life. The relationship I was pursuing was =
between=20
manners (perhaps????) and moral life.
money is to commerce, as oil is to the turning wheel
???? is to moral life, as oil is to the turning wheel
I think the quote I'm looking for is from Treatise on Human Nature.
Janette
On Saturday, December 11, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 12/10/2004 8:10:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> rhymereason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Can anyone help me remember a little something David Hume said about =
morals
> ... it was something to do with the small mundane acts that maintained =
the
> moral life.... he might have mentioned 'oil'.
> Ta
> Janette
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> With pleasure. It might be this:
>
> He said about _money_, though. (But cf. Geary, vol. IV, Ethics and the
> Dollar).
>
> _http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/hume/money.txt_
> (http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/hume/money.txt)
>
> "Money is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce;
> but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the
> exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of
> trade: It is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more
> smooth and easy."
>
> Cheers,
>
> JL
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