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Moreover, St. Thomas is primarily concerned with the uses of the terms negotiatio and lucrum in the moral context of this special form of business being used badly, and the profit therefrom, i.e. where one seeks profit without limit.

Chesterton and Capitalism Part Three 2008

He reserves it for the money profit (lucrum) made from the secondary exchange activity (MCM).

Chesterton and Capitalism Part Two 2008

Note here again, that in this context this is the only thing that St. Thomas calls “profit” (lucrum), intending something artificially (or accidentally) produced in the exchange process.

Chesterton and Capitalism Part Three 2008

Indeed, St. Thomas begins his analysis by adopting Aristotle's strictures against this kind of profit lucrum.

Chesterton and Capitalism Part Three 2008

But that does not address the precise question of whether the motive for the other kind of profit money increase - lucrum is to be considered good or bad.

Chesterton and Capitalism Part Two 2008

Quis unquam vidit avarum ringi, dum lucrum adest, adulterum dum potitur voto, lugere in perpetrando scelere? voluptate sumus ebrii, proinde non sentimus, &c. 6727.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Quantiscumque sumptibus constet, lucrum est pietatis, si quidem inopes refrigerio isto juvamus.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

In foedissimum lucrum et avaritiam hominum convertitur, as Daneus observes.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Qua re non es lassus? lucrum faciendo: quid maxime delectabile? lucrari.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

There is a commendable absence of eulogy in the epitaph, and, instead of any direct quotation from scripture, the motto, _Mors nobis lucrum_ is given, as an adaptation of Phil. i, 21.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less George Worley