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Kant's philosophy - The task of the state & why it must own the basic ressources

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The object of right is the mine and yours, both the innate as well as the acquired property. In the state of nature however all acquired property is only provisional and there is no guarantee that others will respect the mine as mine. For that very reason the state is needed: Its task is to give to each his own, i. e. to guarantee everyone their property. This however requires that the state itself with its laws and constitution must persist and be souvereign. And for that reason that which is necessary for sustaining the whole must also be the property of the whole and must never be owned by an individual.Quote: 0:08The task of the state is the protection of property: 1:08The antietatism of the unaufkläred: 9:16The substance of the state mustn't be the property of individual citizens: 27:07The implications of Kant's doctrine of state for the ecological crisis of the present: 52:56Thanks: 1:10:00On the role of the state one may read Kant's 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, the preliminary works to the Metaphysics of Morals: https://korpora.org/kant/aa23/207.html and the handwritten estate on the philosophy of right: https://korpora.org/kant/aa19/443.html (I am not aware of any English translations).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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