Saturday, June 2, 2018

Private, Personal, Property

'Private' and 'personal' are often treated as synonymous.  On that basis, Private Property is essential to the cultivation of Personhood.  But, as the root of 'person' in 'persona' signifies, the specialization involved is public, not private, i. e. overt, not internal.  In other words, Private and Personal are distinguished as are the inside of a house and its outside.  Private Property is thus not to be confused with Distributed Property, i. e. a Part of a Whole.  The two concepts of Property are that of Micro- or Macro-Economics, on the one hand, vs. that of Political Economy, on the other, i. e. an Atomist concept of Property vs. a Holist one.

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