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    There is a duty of right to act towards others so that external, usable objects can become someone's property.

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    • 1.If no system existed permitting useful objects to be used, there would be an affront to human agency and personality.
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    • 2.Property systems are necessary to protect human agency.
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    • 1.A duty of right must be universalizable, but universal private property rights necessarily exclude some persons from ownership.
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    • 2.What cannot be universalized without contradiction cannot ground a categorical duty of right in the Kantian sense.
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    • 3.Therefore, the claimed duty undermines itself when applied to all rational agents simultaneously.
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    • 1.Proudhon and subsequent anarchist theorists demonstrate that property systems structurally encode relations of domination, not merely agency-protection.
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    • 2.If property institutions generate coercive power asymmetries, they affront the very agency they purport to secure for non-owners.
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    • 3.A putative duty cannot obligate agents to establish institutions that predictably violate the normative foundation invoked to justify them.
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    Immanuel Kant’s work on property is more formal and abstract than Locke’s and—at least until recently-it was less well-known. (But now see Byrd and Hruschka 2006 and Ripstein 2009.) Kant began by emphasizing a general connection between property and agency, maintaining that there would be an affront to agency and thus to human personality, if some system were not arrived at which could permit useful objects to be used. He inferred from this that ‘it is a duty of right to act towards others so th
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