Thus Mr. Hobbes: "The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that > is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power: and > therefore is not absolute,; but a thing dependent on the need and judgement > of another. An able Conductor of Soldiers is of great Price in time of War > present, or imminent; but in Peace not so. A learned and uncorrupt Judge is > much Worth in time of Peace; but not so much in War. And as in other > things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price. For > let a man (as most men do,) rate themselves at the highest Value they can; > yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others."
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Julio Huato <[email protected]> wrote: > Eubulides wrote: > > > In all my years of living, suffering and study I've yet to > > see/think/feel that there is a shred of evidence that we *need* the > > concept, let alone theories, of value, to reduce the self-inflicted > > suffering of humanity. > > I agree. We don't need any scientific concept of value to lead a > comfy life within the confines of this society. We only need it if we > want to know what the deeper content of value is so we have a better > sense of how to give that content a different social form, how to > build a better society, one more adequate to our humanity. That's > all. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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