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Updated: June 10, 2025
In order, then, to estimate the value of an industrial art, one must examine its relation to the general good. Even the artes possessivae were not all considered equally worthy of praise, but were ranked in a curious order of professional hierarchy. Agriculture was considered the highest, next manufacture, and lastly commerce.
'The industries called possessivae, which are immediately useful to the individual, to the family, and to society, producing natural wealth, are also the most natural as well as the most estimable. But all the others should not be despised.
Immovables were thought more worthy of protection against execution and distress than movables, and movables than money. Aquinas advises the rulers of States to encourage the artes possessivae, especially agriculture. The fullest analysis of the order in which the different artes possessivae should be ranked is to be found in Buridan's Commentaries on Aristotle's Politics.
The different occupations in which men were engaged were therefore ranked in a well-recognised hierarchy of dignity according to the estimate to which they were held to be entitled. The Aristotelean division of industry into artes possessivae and artes pecuniativae was generally followed, the former being ranked higher than the latter.
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