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Property: Property is anything that is owned by a person or entity. It can be tangible, or intangible. Property rights give the owner the right to use, possess, and dispose of their property as they see fit. See also Rights, Duties, Contracts.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Immanuel Kant on Property - Dictionary of Arguments

Höffe I 308
Property/Kant/Höffe: Kant (...) [declares] property to be an institution necessary to reason and therefore an indispensable component of every constitutional state. KantVsRoussau: in his Second Treatise, he declares all personal property (...) illegitimate and exclusively communal property, to be permissible.
Cf. >Property/Rousseau
, >Social Contract/Rousseau.
Kant: Now the relevant pure practical reason knows only formal laws. Therefore it cannot divide the objects that freedom is allowed to use for itself into two groups, legitimate and illegitimate objects. It must either prohibit all objects or permit them all. Since an absolute prohibition abolishes external freedom, the pursuit of self-chosen purposes, e contrario follows: All objects must be allowed without any restriction as possible property titles.
Possession of reason: (...) Possession in the legal understanding [is], in contrast to physical possession, the mere possession, not an empirical, but a pure relationship a priori, called "intelligible possession" (possession of reason) by Kant. Legal property does not consist in an empirically perceptible relationship, but in an intellectual relationship: [the stolen property is not property, deposited property is not masterless].

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
I. Kant
I Günter Schulte Kant Einführung (Campus) Frankfurt 1994
Externe Quellen. ZEIT-Artikel 11/02 (Ludger Heidbrink über Rawls)
Volker Gerhard "Die Frucht der Freiheit" Plädoyer für die Stammzellforschung ZEIT 27.11.03
Höffe I
Otfried Höffe
Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016


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