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Single Idea 23204
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
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Full Idea
Property owners are to a man of one belief: 'you have to own something to be something'. But this is the oldest and healthiest of all instincts: I would add 'you have to want more than you have in order to become more'.
Gist of Idea
To be someone you need property, and wanting more is healthy
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 37[11])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.148
A Reaction
An odd idea from someone who spent his later years living in one room in a guest house. The context of this is a rejection of socialism. The love of and need for property and possessions must be taken into account in any politics.
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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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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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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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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