Aristotle in the 21st Century
基于亚里士多德的经济思想，探讨本质主义如何帮助澄清当代价值理论和经济学作为伦理学的核心问题，区分使用价值与交换价值，并指出追求交换价值会忽视使用价值，阻碍社会实现伦理目标。
This review focuses upon three themes from Aristotle's Economic Thought (Meikle, 1995) to reveal how (i) Aristotle's essentialist metaphysics can assist in clarifying contemporary issues in (ii) value theory and (iii) economics as ethics. Essentialism allows one to pose (adequately) the central question of value, namely: what is the entity that renders incommensurable commodities commensurable? Essentialism, by discouraging the elision of differences between activities with different aims, sharply differentiates between those activities which aim at use value, and those which aim at exchange value. Pursuit of the latter encourages neglect of the former, making it difficult for society to pursue ethical aims.