Project Gutenberg 1995-11-01 Public domain in the USA. 250 Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) 1809 1865 Proudhon, Pierre Joseph What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government Produced by Mike Lough, and David Widger "What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government" by P. J. Proudhon is a philosophical and political treatise written in the early 19th century. This seminal work challenges conventional notions of property, proposing radical ideas regarding equality and justice in society. Proudhon famously states, "Property is theft," suggesting that the institution of private property is fundamentally unjust and a source of societal inequality. At the start of the work, Proudhon introduces the central theme of his investigation: the nature of property and its implications for justice and governance. He first proposes that commonly accepted definitions of property, whether based on labor or law, fail to hold when subjected to rigorous analysis. By asserting that property is an effect without a cause, he calls into question the foundations of societal consent and legal structures surrounding ownership. Proudhon's method seeks to dissect these concepts, aiming to demonstrate that true justice and equality must replace existing legal and economic frameworks. The opening chapters promise a critical examination of entrenched societal beliefs, inviting readers to reconsider their views on property and the principles governing human interaction. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Economics Property HB Text Anarchism Browsing: Economics Browsing: Politics Browsing: Sociology 1082253 1082262 2024-09-01T05:14:15.415001 2023-10-01T05:01:53.370474 text/html text/html 1076387 2017-11-19T06:36:14 text/html; charset=us-ascii 373325 2017-11-19T06:36:24 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 453579 2024-09-01T05:14:27.104979 application/epub+zip 466905 2024-09-01T05:14:18.525051 application/epub+zip 464101 2024-09-01T05:14:17.356033 application/epub+zip 871258 2024-09-01T05:14:34.071941 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 833759 2024-09-01T05:14:26.268977 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 653612 2022-09-01T05:31:30.320666 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 950255 950232 2024-09-01T05:14:14.041019 2023-10-01T05:01:52.080469 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 949951 2017-11-19T06:36:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 358730 2017-11-19T06:36:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18688 2024-09-01T05:14:34.233905 application/rdf+xml 24511 2024-09-01T05:14:17.744318 image/jpeg 4471 2024-09-01T05:14:17.547990 image/jpeg 445537 2024-09-01T05:14:15.500031 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia