Why Metaphysics Matters: The Case of Property Law

IF 0.8 2区 哲学 Q3 ETHICS
Ben Ohavi
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Abstract

Are property rights absolute? This paper attempts to reframe this question by drawing on insights from the field of social ontology. My main claim is that, even if we accept the most extreme view of the absoluteness of property rights, there are some non-normative conceptual limitations to these rights. The conceptual limitations are based on two claims about the nature of property rights and their subject matter, namely objects in the world: (1) property law regulates relations between persons through the use of objects, and not relations between persons and objects; (2) even when owned, objects retain some of their ‘independent’, unowned, existence. Taken together, these claims confine property law to the institutional meaning that is given to objects, which is distinct from their social and natural meanings. Since property law defines objects in a certain way, it makes space for other social considerations but without the need to qualify property rights.

形而上学为何重要?财产法案例
产权是绝对的吗?本文试图通过借鉴社会本体论领域的见解来重构这一问题。我的主要主张是,即使我们接受财产权绝对性的最极端观点,这些权利也存在一些非规范性的概念限制。这些概念上的限制是基于对产权性质及其标的物(即世界上的物体)的两个主张:(1) 产权法规范的是人与人之间通过使用物体而产生的关系,而不是人与物体之间的关系;(2) 即使是被拥有的物体,也保留了其某些 "独立的"、未被拥有的存在。综合来看,这些主张将财产法限制在赋予物的制度意义上,而这种意义有别于物的社会和自然意义。由于财产法以某种方式定义了物品,因此它为其他社会因素留出了空间,但无需对财产权进行限定。
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期刊介绍: Law and Philosophy is a forum for the publication of work in law and philosophy which is of common interest to members of the two disciplines of jurisprudence and legal philosophy. It is open to all approaches in both fields and to work in any of the major legal traditions - common law, civil law, or the socialist tradition. The editors of Law and Philosophy encourage papers which exhibit philosophical reflection on the law informed by a knowledge of the law, and legal analysis informed by philosophical methods and principles.
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