Folia Theologica 11. (2000)
Eugene Csocsan de Váralja: The Just Income Distribution
E. CSOCSAN de Váralja 116 According to Alexander Horváth the purpose does not differ from the substance in ethics, where the object of the action is its aim,19 which however might not be realised in each and every action. The process of income distribution is formed by the system of law, which could be considered its object, and the morality of the income distribution depends on the conformity of the laws with the moral norms. IIIrd chapter. The market. 1. The market is the exchange of the offer and the demand in a monetary economy, which forms the prices (price formation), and on this base it transfers the goods. The market could be approached as providing titles to acquire property (titulus acquirendi dominium) from the side of subjective law (ius subiectivum), but in fact the main question in the operation of the market is: what could be gained for what. This in fact lies in the field of objective law, which investigates, what is due to the other: id, quod alteri debetur: ius obiectivum.20 The various systems of law tried mum for living at the negotiating table. Such a bad measure is to establish small holdings with the size 4-5-6 cadastral acres (2,30-2,88-3,45 hectares). This is the most unfortunate group, which could be created, though such holdings were created by the landreforms generally almost everywhere. This is “zu wenig zum Leben, zu viel zum Sterben” as the Germans say. Such a man has to deal with his land, but it is not enough to live.)” Count Pál TELEKI, Magyar politikai gondolatok (Hungarian Political Thoughts), published by Béla KOVRIG, (Nemzeti Könyvtár 42-43) Budapest 1941, page 71 19 “motus specificatur a termino” “Der Zweck ist für das moralische Leben wie überhaupt für jede Tätigkeit nie etwas rein ausserlich, sondern er ist das vereinigende verbindende Element, die Form einer Summe von verstreuten Akten oder Seinwesen(I II qu. 1 a 3. Näheres über diese relative Einheit in A. Horváth: Metaphysik des Relationen, Graz 1914)” “Da nun den moralischen Seinwesen das formgebende begrenzende Element die Zweckursachen bildet” “Der Zweck ist die Form der moralischen Seinwesen.-” “Die Moral vermag demnach auf ihren Gebiete nichts abzugrenzen nichts zu definieren ausser durch den Zweck, und dasjenige was seinem Zweck bestimmt ist muss als eine in sich innerlich abgegrenzte moralische Grösse gelten. Jede andere änsserliche Abgrenzung gehört nicht in die moralische, sondern in eine andere Überlegung.” Alexander HORVÁTH, Eigentumsrecht nach Heiligen Thomas von Aquin, Graz 1929, pages 120-121.
