Aquinas

• What did Aquinas define avarice as?

  an immoderate desire for wealth
• Acceptable to have 'external riches' to the extent that they were necessary for him to maintain the 'condition of life'
• The exchange value of money should be considered more like what?

  • like food than a house
  • 'invented chiefly for the purpose of exchange'
• Money is nothing more than a medium for exchanging commodities
• Born into a wealthy family
• Joined a poor order of preachers - the Dominicans