Conference presentation
Positing Property: as Idea, Law, and for Society
LSAANZ 2023: Voice, Resistance, and Repair: Law and Living Together (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 06/12/2023 - 08/12/2023)
08/12/2023
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Abstract
<p>In this presentation I share some of the ideas that are emerging within my PhD scholarship, and which respond to the conference theme, particularly as it relates to ‘living together’. Titled ‘The Rationality of Property’, my work posits property as centrally concerned with the human-thing relationship. This relationship, I contend, plays a fundamental role in enabling us to realise the essence of what we are as beings, and then to actualise it as objective reality in the world. This understanding is heavily informed by Hegelian philosophy and, as a legal theory, finds expression in the Personhood Theory of Property. This theory promulgates mostly traditional liberal thoughts about property but, I believe, can promote progressive property ideas, including as they relate to social equity and the health of humans, societies, and indeed the planet. Property is rational because it is conducive to these ends and also because, both as idea and law, it is necessary for us to live together.<p>
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- Title
- Positing Property: as Idea, Law, and for Society
- Creators
- Richard Stewart - Southern Cross University, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Conference
- LSAANZ 2023: Voice, Resistance, and Repair: Law and Living Together (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 06/12/2023 - 08/12/2023)
- Identifiers
- 991013181413802368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation