## Metaveri Başlık: **Philosophy of Money** Yazar: *Georg Simmel, David Frisby, and Charles Lemert* Kategori: #books ## Altı Çizilenler - The flow of time can only be established in something that itself does not flow. In contrast, a time that merely flows away, that is, as it were, devoid of memory – for all memory already certainly signifies a completed element – is no time [Zeit] at all, but rather an undimensional now [Jetzt]…. Absolute becoming is precisely as unhistorical as is absolute non-becoming. - Indifference is a rejection of positive value; the possibility of interest remains inactive but is always in the background.The significance of this requirement, which determines the constitution of our world view, is not altered by the fact that our powers of comprehension are often insufficient to decide upon the reality of concepts, or by the fact that the range and certainty of our feelings are often inadequate to rank things according to their value, especially in any permanently and universal fashion. - At the same time, this power of the mediator causes us to focus upon the process of dynamic mediation itself, which ‘emerges as the secure fulcrum in the flight of phenomena’, and as the dominant entity in economic teleology. This accounts, Simmel argues, for ‘the unrest, the feverishness, the unceasing nature of modern life, whose unstoppable wheel is provided by money and which makes the machine of life into a perpetuum mobile.’ Money not merely penetrates everyday life, but also ‘elevates itself to the totally abstract heights above the whole broad diversity of objects as . . . the centre in which the most antithetical, alienated, distant things find their common element and resting point’. - Reality and value as mutually independent categories through which our conceptions become images of the world. - Value is an addition to the completely determined objective being, like light and shade, which are not inherent in it but come from a different source. - …for if I state that an object, which so far existed only in my thoughts, exists, it does not acquire a new quality, because otherwise it would not be the same object that I thought of, but another one. In the same way, an object does not gain a new quality if I call it valuable; it is valued because of the qualities that it has. It is precisely its whole already determined being that is raised to the sphere of value.