The Philosophy of Money (Simmel)

This is a short talk on Georg Simmel's masterpiece The Philosophy of Money. cf. http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Money-Georg-Simmel/dp/0415341736/ref=sr_1_8?....

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Education

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• Simmel
• Georg Simmel
• The Philosophy of Money
• Value
• Money
• Subject
• Object
• sociology
• philosophy
• Corey Anton

[shomi74]

Hello there! Thanks for the very lucid explanation. I think you did very good justice to his work. Actually I watched this in an effort to understand him a tad better. And I think your video served me pretty well. Your elaboration of the 'subject-object' relationship as mediated by 'desire' is first rate.

[Professoranton]

Thank you so much

[searlerc]

Excellent video - thanks!

[Professoranton]

Thanks!

[MirageScience]

this video is pretty old xD

[MirageScience]

Is there any economical consequential ethical thoughts in the book? for example maybe some statements on usury, fractional reserve, lender of last resort, or counterfeiting? I think these things would really get at human nature and human relations while being dependent on money.

Does he talk about how money opens the possibility of alternate modes of existence for humans like profiting in a market by being the middle man, "taxing" transactions, or just profiting from transacting a lot?

[soholingo]

What???

[Kendra4774]

@outsidemendham Economics is not a science.

[outsidemendham]

We don't need a philosophy of economics: We have a science of economics: ECONOMICS. You need to shut the fuck up about things you have not the first clue about!

[7oracle]

@WiseWeeabo Wise words from the Wu

[DemocraticEmpire]

Capitalism forces us to make two choices!

1) we work to pay our bills and buy food

2) we choose no means of employment, and live against the realm of conformity. Thereby the person is not using the established form of bartering, and commerce.

The sham of this usage of (non federal) federal reserve notes is an insult, for it has no value. Even the value of gold is a questionable thought. Why value minerals that we deem precious? This standard of man's daemon is insulting. What value?

[natmanprime]

good vid

btw for shame anton, favouriting a stefbot vid

...i honestly thought you knew better

[natmanprime]

@TheSeungjin i know, it was made more complicated than it needed to be, the main thing is that value itself is fundamentally immeasurable, and money tries to measure it. so money is a spanner in the works, a virus in the program.

the financial collapse around us is a natural consequence of money's existence.

common sense really

if your neighbour does you a favour, you DON'T start measuring it in dollars and pence, leads to trouble, deceit, aggression etc.

tokens, yes

numbered ones, NO.

[WiseWeeabo]

I'mma tell you like WU told me, cash rules everything around me.