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    Private property rights are valid but are subject to a du... — Carmelics
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    Private property rights are valid but are subject to a duty to distribute one's surplus (superflua).

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    • 1.Private property rights are valid because they are needed for prosperity and development.
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    • 2.Natural resources are 'by nature' common — reason's principles do not identify any prior claim to them independent of customary or socially posited schemes.
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    • 3.Socially posited schemes for dividing natural resources could not be morally authoritative unless they acknowledged a duty to distribute one's superflua.
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    • 1.Legitimate acquisition through labor creates full ownership rights, including the right to retain surplus without redistributive obligation (Locke, Second Treatise §27).
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    • 2.A duty to distribute surplus collapses the moral distinction between charity, which is supererogatory, and justice, which is enforceable, undermining the voluntarist basis of beneficence.
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    • 3.If socially posited property schemes derive authority only from acknowledging redistribution duties, then property rights are contingent on contested welfare norms, destabilizing the rule of law (Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia).
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    • 1.The concept of 'superflua' presupposes a determinate standard of sufficiency appropriate to one's vocation, but no such standard can be specified without a normative authority competent to set it, generating a regress problem.
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    • 2.Aquinas's grounding of redistribution in natural law commits him to a universal duty, yet the vocation-relative definition of surplus entrenches existing social hierarchies rather than correcting them, producing an internal inconsistency in the argument's egalitarian ambitions.
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    Justice is the steady and lasting willingness to give to others what they are entitled to (their right: jus [or ius] suum). Aquinas works with this Roman Law definition (ST II-II q. 58 a. 1c), and with Aristotle’s division of justice into (i) distributive (good judgment about how to divide up and parcel out beneficial or burdensome wholes or sets in a way that is fair because guided by appropriate criteria) and (ii) what Aquinas calls commutative justice (good judgment going far wider than Arist
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