What IS property?

 

"I asked myself what could be the reason that so many should be permitted to beg who are willing to work, in a country where there is a very considerable proportion of uncultivated lands? ... Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on. If, for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment be furnished to those excluded from the appropriation. If we do not the fundamental right to labour the earth returns to the unemployed." - T. Jefferson, Letter to J. Madison, 1785

Did you know ...

• that "justice" is "virtually indistinguishable from rightness" and was codified in the Institutes of Justinian as "the constant and perpetual will to render to each his due"? Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
  
• that "due" means "customary, regular, right, proper" Online Etymology Dictionary,
• that "proper" is from the Latin pro privo and means "for the individual, in particular" and is the general idea behind "property"  Online Etymology Dictionary,
• that property is NOT a real entity but a sociological [even ecological] process constantly and perpetually rendering what is due to each and every real entity,
• that any nomos [including oikos-nomos] concerning or any positive law codifying property is just only if, when and to the extent that it renders to each his due and
  
• that all this sounds alot like ... civil rights?
  

So if you want to think ontologically about what IS justice and property and money and civil rights ... watch for the coming link to an essay titled "Property IS Justice and Money IS Property".

.. you will NOT want to miss this one ... 😀