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  • 11 - On How to Acquire Something External, and Especially on the Right to Things (A Commentary on the Metaphysics of Morals §§10–17)

  • Edited by Karl Ameriks
  • Otfried Höffe, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
  • Book:
    Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy
    Published online:
    13 November 2009
    Print publication:
    27 April 2009, pp 231-245

  • Summary

    The discussion of the 'General principle of external acquisition' in S10 introduces the second chapter on 'How to acquire something external'. In S10, Immanuel Kant is concerned with the actual realisation of this possibility. The analysis in S10 treats of acquisition in general, and draws conclusions that also hold for the next three sections of the text: that on 'property right', or one's right to things, that on 'contract right', or one's rights to persons, and that on 'rights to persons akin to rights to things'. The relation of right obtains between the owner and the possessor, and property grants a right over against the possessor with respect to the thing. The way in which property right regulates the relations between persons differs from other regulations governing such relations only in that the former relates essentially to the capacity for disposing over things (material objects).