A History of Greek Economic ThoughtTrever, Albert Augustus
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A History of Greek Economic Thought
Trever, Albert Augustus
Economics -- Greece -- History; Thesis (Ph. D.)
Cf. _Laws_ 889 D-E, 709 B-D, and Robin, _op. cit._, pp. 224 f.; also
the entire argument of the _Republic_ on justice.
Footnote 73:
_Laws_ 921B. The word is ἀξία.
Footnote 74:
_Ibid._: γιγνώσκει γὰρ ὅγε δημιουργὸς τὴν ἀξίαν.
Footnote 75:
Cf. p. 15, n. 7 above.
Footnote 76:
_Euthydemus_ 280B-E, 281B, D, 288E-289A; _Meno_ 88D-E.
Footnote 77:
_Unto This Last_, IV, 62: “Useful articles that we can use”; 64:
“Wealth is the possession of the valuable by the valiant” (Vol. XVII,
86 ff.); _Fors Clavigera_, Letter 70 (Vol. XXVIII, 712 ff.); _Munera
Pulveris_, I, 14 (Vol. XVII, 154); II, 35 (Vol. XVII, 166 f.). Plato’s
economic ideas greatly influenced Ruskin. Cf. _infra_, p. 149, n. 2.
Cf. also Vol. XXXVIII, 112; XXXIX, 411, of Ruskin. He says, in the
preface to _Unto This Last_ (Vols. XVII, XVIII), that his “real
purpose is to give ... a logical definition of wealth,” which has
“often been given incidentally in good Greek by Plato and Xenophon.”
Cf. _ibid._, n. 1, for other such references.
Footnote 78:
_Ibid._
Footnote 79:
Cf. above note and _Mun. Pul._, II, 30, notes; _Fors Clav._, Letter
70, 3 (Vol. XXVII, 713), the “good things.”
Footnote 80:
_Fors Clav._, Lett. 70, 8 f. (Vol. XXVIII, 718 ff.), where he refers
to Plato’s _Laws_ 727A.
Footnote 81:
Cf. _infra_ for citations.
Footnote 82:
Cf. p. 23 and notes.
Footnote 83:
_Laws_ 697B, 631C, 728A, 870B; _Apol._ 29D-E.
Footnote 84:
_Apol._ 30B; also _Laws_ 743E; _Gorg._ 451E; cf. Ruskin, _Fors Clav._,
Lett. 70, 6 and 11 (Vol. XXVIII, 717), where he cites _Laws_ 726-728A,
on the value of the soul. He also cites _Laws_ 742-743 and _Rep._ 416E
(cf. _Mun. Pul._ [Vol. XVII, 89, 148]).
Footnote 85:
_Laws_ 743E.
Footnote 86:
831C-D. Ruskin (_Crown of Wild Olive_, 83, Vol. XVIII, 456 f.) cites
_Critias_ 120E ff., in urging the same idea. He also cites Plato’s
myth of the metals, _Rep._ 416E, in similar vein (_Mun. Pul._, III,
89, Vol. XVII, 211).
Footnote 87:
631C cited by Ruskin, _Mun. Pul._, III, 88 (Vol. XVII, 210).
Footnote 88:
661A, 661B; _Rep._ 331A-B.
Footnote 89:
_Laws_ 661B; _Hipp. Maj._ 290D; _Menex._ 246E.
Footnote 90:
_Mun. Pul._, II, 35 ff.; he refers to both Xenophon and Plato as being
right on this point. Cf. _Fors. Clav._, I, 8 (Vol. XXVII, 122); _Unto
This Last_, 64 (Vol. XVII, 89).
Footnote 91:
_Rep._ 550D, 373D: ἐὰν καὶ ἐκεῖνοι ἀφῶσιν αὑτοὺς ἐπὶ χρημάτων κτῆσιν
ἄπειρον ὑπερβάντες τὸν τῶν ἀναγκαίων ὄρον. On ἄπειρος cf. _infra_
under Aristotle. Cf. Dobbs, _op. cit._, pp. 202 f. and note, on the
evil results of excessive wealth and poverty in the Greece of that
age. Like Ruskin, _Mun. Pul._, VI, 153 and note (Vol. XVII, 277), who
cites _Laws_ 736E; _Aratra Pentelici_, IV, 138 (Vol. XX, 295 f.) on
money as the root of all evil, citing _Laws_ 705B.
Footnote 92:
_Laws_ 729A.
Footnote 93:
742D.
Footnote 94:
_Rep._ 421D.
Footnote 95:
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