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标题：How human is property?
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作者：BART J. WILSON ; BART J. WILSON
期刊名称：PERC reports
电子版ISSN：1095-3779
出版年度：2018
卷号：37
期号：1
页码：46-48
语种：English
出版社：PERC (Political Economy Research Center)
摘要：Depending upon which department you visit at your favorite university, you will hear some rather different perspectives on property. The common view in humanities departments is that property is a modern, Western European, hegemonic construction, the cause of all wars and quarrels in the world. This is not hyperbole. One of its patron philosophers from the 18th century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, imagined “what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared…” had we not “forg[otten] that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one.” In the 19th century, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon declared, with clever moral inversion, what many still believe: “Property is theft.