Private property, primitive accumulation and idolatry
Abstract: This article suggest that belief in absolute prívate property rights is a type of dispos- session of what rightfully belongs to God and, by extensión, the people of God. The first section of tliis essay address a question so often ignored in discussions of prívate property rights: how did sorne people come to be owners of property in the first place, while others own nothing but their own bodies and its labor? Then the article look into the liistory of dispossession. The second section address how that history is explained away tlirough various types of theodicy. There is an exarn about some such theodicies and the author suggest that our prevailing regime of privatization and absolute property rights is a kind of idolatry, the worship of a false god of dispossession.
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| Format: | Artículo biblioteca |
| Language: | spa |
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Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Teología
2021
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| Subjects: | PROPIEDAD PRIVADA, DERECHO, ENAJENACION, TEOLOGIA, |
| Online Access: | https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/11597 |
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| Summary: | Abstract: This article suggest that belief in absolute prívate property rights is a type of dispos- session of what rightfully belongs to God and, by extensión, the people of God. The first section of tliis essay address a question so often ignored in discussions of prívate property rights: how did sorne people come to be owners of property in the first place, while others own nothing but their own bodies and its labor? Then the article look into the liistory of dispossession. The second section address how that history is explained away tlirough various types of theodicy. There is an exarn about some such theodicies and the author suggest that our prevailing regime of privatization and absolute property rights is a kind of idolatry, the worship of a false god of dispossession. |
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