Abstract

This paper explores the way the Scholastic argument against usury, which culminated in the 13th century with Thomas Aquinas’s question on interest loans in the Summa Theologiae, found an end with Hugo Grotius’s introduction of economic issues, in De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625). Whereas Grotius inherited at least part of his predecessors’ repugnance of interest lending, he found in his questioning of categories from Roman law the source of both a criticism of the main features of the Scholastic argument and an alternative analysis of interest loans in which the income received by the lender is explained and legitimate.

摘要

本文探讨了经院反对高利贷的论点，这种论点在 13 世纪以托马斯·阿奎那在《神学大全》中提出的利息贷款问题而达到顶峰，并以雨果·格老秀斯在《和平法》（De Jure Belli ac Pacis，1625）中引入经济问题而结束。尽管格劳秀斯至少部分地继承了他的前辈对利息借贷的反感，但他在对罗马法范畴的质疑中发现，这既是对经院学派论证的主要特征的批评的根源，也是对利息借贷的另一种分析的根源，其中收入贷方收到的信息是经过解释且合​​法的。