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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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WHAT IS PROPERTY?
AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLE
OF RIGHT AND OF GOVERNMENT
By P. J. Proudhon
DETAILED CONTENTS
P. J. PROUDHON:  HIS LIFE AND HIS WORKS
PREFACE
FIRST MEMOIR
CHAPTER I.
METHOD PURSUED IN THIS WORK.—THE IDEA OF A REVOLUTION
CHAPTER II.
PROPERTY CONSIDERED AS A NATURAL RIGHT.—OCCUPATION
AND CIVIL LAW
AS EFFICIENT BASES OF PROPERTY.—DEFINITIONS
% 1.  Property as a Natural Right.
% 2.  Occupation as the Title to Property.
% 3.  Civil Law as the Foundation and Sanction of
Property.
CHAPTER III.

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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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