RT Article
T1 Recognition and Property in Hegel and the Early Marx
JF Ethical theory and moral practice
VO 16
IS 4
SP 685
OP 697
A1 Chitty, Andrew
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785697552
AB This 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.
K1 Marx
K1 Hegel
K1 Property
K1 Recognition
DO 10.1007/s10677-013-9408-5