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Kant's philosophy - Innate & acquired rights or: Why there needs to be property

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Private right according to Kant demands restriction of everyone's choice as much as is necessary for the choice of everyone else to coexist with it. All right therefore is concerned with the preservation of freedom. And for that reason it is about what Kant calls the mine and yours: about property. Here Kant distinguishes innate and acquired rights, that is rights to that which is mine by birth and to that which is mine through acquisition. The innate human right is the right to one's own freedom. The proper task of the philosophy of right however is solving the question how a right can be acquired, that is how property is possible.Quote: 0:08Private right: 0:30Innate righhts: 14:44Acquired rights: 22:52Temporary acquistion through physical possession: 29:05Why there must be property: 36:59The unjustified critique of Kant's formalism: 51:38The parallelism between the philosophy of right and theoretical philosophy: 1:09:38The dialectic of right and its solution through juridical idealism: 1:14:22Property obliges: 1:46:21Conclusion: 2:04:11Thanks: 2:07:09Private right and juridical idealism Kant discusses in his Metaphysics of Morals: https://ld.circuitdebater.org/w/archive_files/%5BImmanuel_Kant%5D_Kant_The_Metaphysics_of_Morals.pdf/507955836/%5BImmanuel_Kant%5D_Kant_The_Metaphysics_of_Morals.pdf. To add to this and to better understand this one should also read his preparatory work to the Metaphysics of Morals: https://www.korpora.org/Kant/aa23/207.html (I am not aware of any English translation). Whoever wants to support my aufkläring work can do so via:https://ko-fi.com/jonathanivoloewerhttps://www.patreon.com/jonathanivoloewerhttps://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VDDT7T7XHR77UThumbnail: www.hotpot.ai

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