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What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government — P.-J. Proudhon

What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

P.-J. Proudhon

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 390 pages

A political-philosophical essay by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon that asks what property is and how it relates to right and government. It examines claims based on natural right, occupation, civil law and labor, arguing that property as an absolute right is contradictory and incompatible with justice and equality. Worth listening for its influential critique of ownership and authority.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. WHAT IS PROPERTY?
  2. AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLE OF RIGHT AND OF GOVERNMENT
  3. Linked Contents
  4. P. J. PROUDHON: HIS LIFE AND HIS WORKS.
  5. PREFACE.
  6. WHAT IS PROPERTY? OR,
  7. FIRST MEMOIR.
  8. CHAPTER I. METHOD PURSUED IN THIS WORK.—THE IDEA OF A REVOLUTION.
  9. CHAPTER II. PROPERTY CONSIDERED AS A NATURAL RIGHT
  10. CHAPTER III. LABOR AS THE EFFICIENT CAUSE OF THE DOMAIN OF PROPERTY.
  11. CHAPTER IV. THAT PROPERTY IS IMPOSSIBLE.
  12. APPENDIX TO THE FIFTH PROPOSITION.
  13. CHAPTER V. PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPOSITION OF THE IDEA OF JUSTICE
  14. PART FIRST.
  15. PART SECOND.
  16. WHAT IS PROPERTY? SECOND MEMOIR
  17. SECOND MEMOIR.
  18. Conclusion.—"The results of the labor performed by this generation are
  19. FOOTNOTES:
  20. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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