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    It is not the case that Civil ownership and civil use as legal categories are consequences of the Fall

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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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    • 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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