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Single Idea 22774
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
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Full Idea
Many states have rightly dissolved the monasteries, because a community does not ultimately have the same right to property as a person does.
Gist of Idea
A community does not have the property-owning rights that a person has
Source
Georg W.F.Hegel (Elements of the Philosophy of Right [1821], 046)
Book Ref
Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'Elements of the Philosophy of Right', ed/tr. Wood,Allen W. [CUP 1991], p.78
A Reaction
Trinity College, Cambridge, owns vast amounts of land. A lot of property seems to be owned by legal trusts. Hegel sees the basis of property ownership in a person's will. He allows some exceptions.
The
47 ideas
with the same theme
[right to own land and personal possessions]:
22537
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Property should be owned privately, but used communally
[Aristotle]
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6580
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Locke (and Marx) held that ownership of objects is a natural relation, based on the labour put into it
[Locke, by Fogelin]
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20520
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Locke says 'mixing of labour' entitles you to land, as well as nuts and berries
[Wolff,J on Locke]
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19875
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A man's labour gives ownership rights - as long as there are fair shares for all
[Locke]
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19874
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If a man mixes his labour with something in Nature, he thereby comes to own it
[Locke]
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19876
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Gathering natural fruits gives ownership; the consent of other people is irrelevant
[Locke]
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19877
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Fountain water is everyone's, but a drawn pitcher of water has an owner
[Locke]
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19878
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Mixing labour with a thing bestows ownership - as long as the thing is not wasted
[Locke]
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19879
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A man owns land if he cultivates it, to the limits of what he needs
[Locke]
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19898
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Soldiers can be commanded to die, but not to hand over their money
[Locke]
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12548
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It is certain that injustice requires property, since it is a violation of the right to property
[Locke]
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21095
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It is an exaggeration to say that property is the foundation of all government
[Hume]
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6581
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Hume thought (unlike Locke) that property is a merely conventional relationship
[Hume, by Fogelin]
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21102
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We all know that the history of property is founded on injustices
[Hume]
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19777
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Persuading other people that some land was 'owned' was the beginning of society
[Rousseau]
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19782
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What else could property arise from, but the labour people add to it?
[Rousseau]
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19781
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Land cultivation led to a general right of ownership, administered justly
[Rousseau]
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19754
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If we have a natural right to property, what exactly does 'belonging to' mean?
[Rousseau]
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19799
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Private property must always be subordinate to ownership by the whole community
[Rousseau]
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21090
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If someone has largely made something, then they own it
[Kant]
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19862
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Property is a sacred right, breached only when essential, and with fair compensation
[Mirabeau/committee]
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21782
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Man has an absolute right to appropriate things
[Hegel]
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22773
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Because only human beings can own property, everything else can become our property
[Hegel]
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22774
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A community does not have the property-owning rights that a person has
[Hegel]
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22775
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The owner of a thing is obviously the first person to freely take possession of it
[Hegel]
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20523
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Property is theft!
[Proudhon]
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5291
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The law says private property is the result of the general will
[Marx/Engels]
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23048
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The ground of property ownership is not force but the power to use it for social ends
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23049
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Property is needed by all citizens, to empower them to achieve social goods
[Green,TH]
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23204
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To be someone you need property, and wanting more is healthy
[Nietzsche]
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21524
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The right to own land gives a legal right to a permanent income
[Russell]
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23820
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People need personal and collective property, and a social class lacking property is shameful
[Weil]
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21734
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It is plausible that no one has an initial right to own land and natural resources
[Cohen,GA]
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21736
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It is doubtful whether any private property was originally acquired legitimately
[Cohen,GA]
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21735
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Every thing which is now private started out as unowned
[Cohen,GA]
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22813
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Property is not essential for life, but it may be essential for independence
[Taylor,C]
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20539
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Property is legitimate by initial acquisition, voluntary transfer, or rectification of injustice
[Nozick, by Swift]
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18645
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Nozick assumes initial holdings include property rights, but we can challenge that
[Kymlicka on Nozick]
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18646
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How did the private property get started? If violence was involved, we can redistribute it
[Kymlicka on Nozick]
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18647
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If property is only initially acquired by denying the rights of others, Nozick can't get started
[Kymlicka on Nozick]
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20521
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Can I come to own the sea, by mixing my private tomato juice with it?
[Nozick]
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21737
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Unowned things may be permanently acquired, if it doesn't worsen the position of other people
[Nozick]
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21738
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Maybe land was originally collectively owned, rather than unowned?
[Cohen,GA on Nozick]
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20522
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Utilitarians might say property ownership encourages the best use of the land
[Wolff,J]
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20096
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Roman law entrenched property rights
[Micklethwait/Wooldridge]
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20541
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You can't necessarily sell your legitimate right to something, even if you produced it
[Swift]
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20546
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Libertarians about property ignore the fact that private property is a denial of freedoms
[Swift]
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