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    Civil ownership and civil use as legal categories are con... — Carmelics
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    Civil ownership and civil use as legal categories are consequences of the Fall

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    • 1.Before the Fall, use of created goods was communal and unencumbered by selfishness
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    • 2.Civil ownership and civil use arose from man-made laws designed to regulate property ownership
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    • 3.The need to regulate property ownership is a result of postlapsarian selfishness
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    • 1.Aquinas holds in Summa Theologiae II-II q.66 that private property is a rational addition to natural law, not a remedial consequence of original sin.
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    • 2.Rational additions to natural law can be normatively legitimate on their own terms, independent of any account of postlapsarian corruption.
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    • 3.If civil ownership is a rational elaboration of natural law rather than a fallen institution, Wyclif's pejorative genealogy misidentifies its normative status.
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    • 1.Aristotle argues in the Politics that private property is natural to humans as social animals, preceding any historical fall from grace.
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    • 2.If private ownership reflects natural sociality rather than moral corruption, its legal codification tracks nature rather than compensating for sin.
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    Wyclif's definition of civil dominium as “proprietary lordship in a viator over the goods of fortune fully according to human law” is centered not on legislative authority, but on the private property ownership enjoyed by the viator, or wayfarer, along life's path (De Civili Dominio III ch. 11, p.178.9–17).[9] This is because all civil dominium is based on the use of goods owned, which is the basis for all postlapsarian conceptions of justice (recall that for Wyclif, only God truly owns create
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