Assertions and Refutations III: An Assessment of Money, Markets and Morals by Various Authors (editor Thomas Storck)

by Dr. Donald G. Boland

In this book, Donald G. Boland assesses Money, Market and Morals (En Route Books and Media, 2024), edited by Thomas Storck, and provides the reader with a treatment of the modern notion of investment (of money). The focus places the discussion of usury in its right perspective, which brings in the full context of the study of justice, as it applies to politico-economic affairs with particular reference to the morality of the commercial and financial dealings that dominate modern social life (in the “West”).

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OTHER TITLES BY DONALD G. BOLAND

  1. Logic, Science, and St. Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  2. Natural Philosophy, Modern Science and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  3. Science, Psychology and Saint Thomas Aquinas by Donald G. Boland | En Route Books and Media
  4. Ethics Today and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  5. Natural Law – Australian Style | En Route Books and Media
  6. Political Science and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  7. Economic Science and St. Thomas Aquinas: On Justice in the Distribution and Exchange of Wealth | En Route Books and Media
  8. The Social Encyclicals and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  9. Metaphysics, Truth and St. Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  10. Metaphysics/Ontology and St. Thomas Aquinas (Twenty Readings in Wisdom Forsaken) | En Route Books and Media
  11. Thomas of the Creator | En Route Books and Media
  12. The Thomist Tradition: Avoiding Scylla and Charybdis | En Route Books and Media
  13. Rev. Fr. Austin M. Woodbury, SM, PhD, STD and the Aquinas Academy (1945 – 1975) | En Route Books and Media

REVIEW BY FRANK CALNEGGIA

There is a correct way (and a number of incorrect ways to attempt) to analyse and resolve particular philosophical problems or questions. To treat of the questions of usury and value in (monetary)  exchange Dr. Boland has shown beyond doubt that the correct way is to treat them in principle under the genus of practical/moral questions and specifically as ones of natural justice. His discussion and the solutions and corrections he offers his interlocutor Thomas Storck are based firmly on the apodictic conclusions of St. Thomas Aquinas to be found in that part of the Summa devoted to justice and its specific kinds, especially commutative justice.

Beyond those authors whose work is evaluated, and where necessary corrected, the philosophical certitude to be gained from Dr. Boland’s faithful and very clear exposition of St. Thomas and the discussion he develops around it, have obvious and wide application in modern socio-economic life. I am very happy to recommend this book.

–Frank Calneggia, author of Assertions and Refutations: An Assessment of Dr Tracey Rowland’s Natural Law: From Neo Thomism to Nuptial Mysticism and editor of Analysing the Errors and Exposing the Real Agenda of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.: The Selected Works of Frits Albers, Vol. 1

​ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Donald G Boland Ll. B. (Sydney), Ph. D. (Angelicum) is a founding member of the Centre for Catholic Studies Inc. in Sydney Australia and is one of its former Presidents. He practiced for a number of years as a lawyer having a degree in law from the University of Sydney. Over much the same time, having obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the University of St. Thomas in Rome, he has taught philosophy and law in both Catholic and secular educational institutions, such as the University of Technology, Sydney, the University of Newcastle, the Aquinas Academy, the Centre for Thomistic Studies Inc., now operating under the name of the Centre for Catholic Studies Inc., and various Catholic seminaries, such as those of the Marists and the Vincentians. His doctoral thesis was on the concepts of utility and value in economics as found in the works of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas.

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