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Eugene Csocsan de Váralja: The Just Income Distribution

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ality the material of the money is irrelevant concerning its essence and function(s): gold, kaori shells and paper as well has been used for money, and already in the XIXth century the authorities in Vienna could keep the value of their paper money without the provision of corresponding security funds,39 as did many other authorities ever since. In fact money transactions can be performed with the help of columns of numbers in the banks without using any physical money. The material used for the money matters only if the national economy is declining and the money is loosing its value, that is to say, when its nominal value differs from its real value.

“The money has been ordained to serve as means to other goal”40 This goal (causa finalis) is the participation in the result of (national) production. Therefore the money of the better performing national economies is better sought after, than the money of less successful economies and the power of a money is also influenced by the high technology and cultural achievements, which could be bought by it.

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IV chapter. Teleological Hierarchy

1. The structure of common good's content. (bonum cummune tamquam finis qui). The Chistian sociology is focused on the common good according to which the society's goal is the common good41

According to Paul Kecskés “we to have to establish the content of the important concept of the common good, the «bonum commune» in the goods of cultural value. Meanwhile the common good is the goal of the social community, and because of this (just) found connection we might establish, that culture is the goal of society.”42 The culture is activity for

39 The Austro-Hungarian Central Bank has suspended the conversion of banknotes in 1848. “It was proposed that the payment with metal would start in 1867, but it has been suspended by the war. In the crisis year of 1873 the decision to limit the amount of banknotes to 200 million forints was suspended. In the autumn of that year the traffic of banknotes has risen to 373 million forints and only 38 % of this amount had metal cover.” Révai Nagy Lexikon, XIV. kötet, Budapest 19 887. oldal

See also HELLER, Farkas, Közgazdaságtan (Economics) , Volume II Alkalmazott közgazdaságtan (Applied Economics) Budapest 1947, page 150

40 pecunia ordinatur quidem ad aliud sicut ad finem IIa IIde qu. 118 a. 7 ad 2.

41 Eberhard WELTY, Gemeinschaft und Einzelmensch. Salzburg-Leipzig 1935, page 211

42 Pál, KECSKÉS, A keresztény társadalomelmélet alapelvei. (The Principles