# Actus-purus principle (actus-purus tenet)

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## Definition

In the philosophy of money, this term, borrowed from Aristotelian philosophy, refers to the fact that money consists in itself: it does not itself have any compelling force to do anything. Money is neither good nor evil, but ethically neutral. The decisive factor is solely the choice a money owner makes with the means of payment in his power of disposal, the way he uses the purchasing power embodied in money. - This principle clearly rejects all (popular) insinuations according to which money - is the root of all human evils (root of all evil), deforms the personality (deforms the character) and leads into disaster (leads into desaster), - provides satisfaction and fulfillment of all human wishes (satisfies all humans wishes and leads to happiness), yes even - the money owner into happiness (bliss, understood here as absence of all evils and full possession of the good; absence of any evil and full possession of all what is good; this is a basic, a primal definition of Marcus Tullius Cicero who defined bliss in Tusculanarum Disputationum, liber V, cap. X, § 28) "...NEQUE ULLA ALIA HUIC VERBO, CUM BEATUM DICIMUS, SUBIECTA NOTIO EST NISI SECRETIS MALIS OMNIBUS CUMULATA BONORUM COMPLEXIO"). - See omnipotence doctrine, equivalence principle, money abolition, money ethics, money faith, money philosophy, money arithmetic, money purpose, greed, mammonism, pantheism, monetary, thrift, symbol theory, ungoods, centralization, monetary. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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