What Is Provisional Right
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10693994 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Jay Stone (0009-0004-2940-0179, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law), Ruqaiya Hasan (0000-0002-2846-0004, Amherst College), Rafeeq Hasan (Amherst College) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 131 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-98 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00318108-9415141 |
| OpenAlex | W4221085282 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
Kant maintains that while claims to property are morally possible in a state of nature, such claims are merely “provisional”; they become “conclusive” only in a civil condition involving political institutions. Kant’s commentators find this thesis puzzling, since it seems to assert a natural right to property alongside a commitment to property’s conventionality. We resolve this apparent contradiction. Provisional right is not a special kind of right. Instead, it marks the imperfection of an action (that of acquiring ordinary rights) where public authorization is lacking. Provisional right thereby functions as a methodological device in a sequential elucidation of the moral basis of public law. To develop this reading, we first explain Kant’s two-step account of property rights—his division between ‘having’ and ‘acquiring’. Then we explain what is involved in a sequential exposition of right more generally
Action (physics) · Contradiction · Epistemology · Exclusive right · Exposition (narrative) · Intellectual property · Law and economics · Moral rights · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy) · Property rights · Sociology · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Law · Legal principles and applications · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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An Instrumentalist Theory of Political Legitimacy
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |