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  • 5 - Intelligible possession of objects of choice

  • Edited by Lara Denis, Agnes Scott College, Decatur
  • Book:
    Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
    Published online:
    10 January 2011
    Print publication:
    28 October 2010, pp 93-110

  • Summary

    This chapter maps out Kant's arguments on how to have something as one's own. Kant has three concepts of possession: empirical physical possession, possession as a pure concept of the understanding, and intelligible possession. Notable about Kant's discourses on the permissive law in "Toward Perpetual Peace" is that they provide what might be called a justification for a temporary period of time to right a wrongful situation. Interpreting the permissive law as a power-conferring norm has the benefit of making the Kant text comprehensible. Kant's sole prerequisite for being permitted to take an external object into one's possession is that no one else's freedom of choice is violated through the taking. Kant's entire line of argumentation on original acquisition of external things can be applied by analogy to derived acquisition under contract or by virtue of a family relationship.