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Recognition and property in Hegel and the early Marx
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-08, 12:55 authored by Andrew ChittyThe article attempts to show, first, that for Hegel the role of property is to enable persons both to objectify their freedom and to properly express their recognition of each other as free, and second, that the Marx of 1844 uses fundamentally similar ideas in his exposition of communist society. For him the role of ‘true property’ is to enable individuals both to objectify their essential human powers and their individuality, and to express their recognition of each other as fellow human beings with needs, or their ‘human recognition’. Marx further uses these ideas to condemn the society of private property and market exchange as characterised by ‘estranged’ forms of property and recognition. He therefore uses a structure of ideas which Hegel had used to justify the institutions of private property and market exchange in order to condemn those same institutions. It is concluded that Marx’s adoption from Hegel of the idea that property as the means of self-objectification and of expressed recognition, leaves his vision of communism open to the charge that in it, just as in market society, the relations between human beings are mediated by things.
History
Publication status
- Published
File Version
- Accepted version
Journal
Ethical Theory and Moral PracticeISSN
1386-2820Publisher
KluwerExternal DOI
Issue
4Volume
16Page range
685-697Department affiliated with
- Philosophy Publications
Full text available
- Yes
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- Yes