P6Ch43c Private Property

An episode of the Foundations of Christian Thought podcast, hosted by Christian Thought, titled "P6Ch43c Private Property" was published on January 12, 2022 and runs 4 minutes.

January 12, 2022 ·4m · Foundations of Christian Thought

Summary

Part 6 Ethics Chapter 43 Rights and Justice Section c. Private Property The capacity to own something is due to the innate freedom within persons, and this right is a reflection of that freedom as directed to the good to which that possessed can be ordered towards. As such, the person has no rights of ownership before God, but only before other people.  There is also the notion of collective property, like that owned within a family, which is not something that can be imposed by force, or said to be required by nature.  There is to the notion of public property, those possessions owned by the entire society vested on the state, to the extent that it is for the common good. When this ordering of public property and power ceases to be directed towards the common good, but towards the state itself or elsewhere is where society starts to manifest signs of totalitarianisms which runs contrary to the freedom of man and the family.

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