The need for greed…
The need for money has been a necessity ever since commerce was born. However, this greed has been the root of numerous misgivings. Therefore, is money evil? Am I considered evil because it is what I need?
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March 11th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Money is not evil. Actually, according to Nicomachean Ethics, money can be considered a good because it can be a good by virtue or in reference of an idea. Money, as a secondary good, may be used to obtain a good that is good in themselves.
Or maybe I understood the books wrong XD x_x
Actually, Nicomachean Ethics (I have a soft copy of chapters 1, 8-10 if you’re interested.
Books 8-10 talks about the kinds of friendships, pleasures, happiness and the virtues encompassed, I think. I can send it to you.) doesn’t tackle really about money XD It’s about the ethics of virtue. But it does define good and happiness in terms of virtue. 
So I don’t think one can say that money is evil or the pursuit of it is evil.
March 16th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
It is often misquoted from the Bible, which doesn’t say that money is the root of all evil. Rather, it says that the love of money is the root of all evil (I Timothy 6:10).
Like everything else in the world, good things can be twisted by evil to become bad, just as seemingly bad things can turn out to be good in the end.