a relentless necessity

Still proud of this article on the role of racial slavery in Kant's theory of money in the *Philosophy of Right.* philarchive.org/rec/CAPEMH

(not a gotcha question btw, just curious)

are you planning to narrate this primarily in terms of writer-to-writer transmission or are you trying to connect these shifts in allowances for lucrum cessans to shifts in what the lenders are up to at these different periods at all?

the jason statham 'you times infinity' line delivery is a loadbearing bit between my partner and i at this point

i just think that if we were gonna take that as the difference-maker with respect to capitalism (an 'if' i'm not especially inclined towards myself, but one i'm not *automatically* against), agrarian england isn't at all where i'd be looking for it

i just don't see the existence of that class as particularly historically special or as a significant historical driver in the way brenner does, and my recollection of the og brenner article is that they're kind of the center of the argument. but it sounds like the costa differs

anyway i'll be interested to see the argument in costa re: increasing market dependence of the landlord class, sounds unlikely to me but i've been wrong before and will be wrong again

right this is why i asked

should have been a question mark there, sorry

who do you mean when you distinguish producers from appropriators in the relevant context (the costa book is on my list but i haven't gotten to it yet and probably won't until spring)

like i said i'm retired anyway!

but i'm retired from woodposting

idk the fact that anyone's even still reading it means it's pretty underhated imo

idk that happiness is one of the things it increased for me, but then again i also wasn't exactly enjoying what i was doing beforehand so who's to say

ah yeah good idea

for the *legal* treatises, specifically?

what i really need is a list of who to read for the long answer

@SamBaudinette ?

people seem to think it's unlikely, but it would explain *a lot* if someone in peter the chanter's circle had read rushd's bidāyat al-mujtahid wa nihāyat al-muqtasid

started trying to work up a comparative angle on the usury/riba question after deciding it was too hard to get a grip on during my phd for language reasons