http://www.roughtheory.org/content/the-dead-weight-of-tradition/ theory in the rough Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:54:32 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/the-dead-weight-of-tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-6743 What in the hell … :: … does tailoring produce? :: March :: 2007 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:23:42 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/the-dead-weight-of-tradition/#comment-6743 [...] “Though therefore it is impossible for things so different to become commensurable in the strict sense,our demand furnishes a sufficiently accurate common measure for practical purposes. There must therefore be some one standard, and this accepted by agreement (which is why it is called nomisma, customary currency).” (Rackham. The Penguin edition of Capital [p151] cites the 1926 Loeb edition of the Nicomachean Ethics, which is I believe an edition of the Rackham translation. See commentaries on Marx’s comments on Aristotle at the Archive and at Roughtheory.) [...] [...] “Though therefore it is impossible for things so different to become commensurable in the strict sense,our demand furnishes a sufficiently accurate common measure for practical purposes. There must therefore be some one standard, and this accepted by agreement (which is why it is called nomisma, customary currency).” (Rackham. The Penguin edition of Capital [p151] cites the 1926 Loeb edition of the Nicomachean Ethics, which is I believe an edition of the Rackham translation. See commentaries on Marx’s comments on Aristotle at the Archive and at Roughtheory.) [...]

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