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Recognition and property in Hegel and the early Marx

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posted on 2023-06-08, 12:55 authored by Andrew Chitty
The 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.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

ISSN

1386-2820

Publisher

Kluwer

Issue

4

Volume

16

Page range

685-697

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  • Philosophy Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-10-31

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2012-10-31

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2012-10-31

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