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In die Skriflig

versión On-line ISSN 2305-0853
versión impresa ISSN 1018-6441

In Skriflig (Online) vol.43 no.1 Pretoria ene. 2009

 

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

 

God's gifts to humankind: A legal-philosophical interpretation of Luther's views on ownership and the natural right to property

 

God se geskenke aan die mensdom: 'n Regsfilosofiese interpretasie van Luther se standpunte oor eienaarskap en die natuurlike reg op eiendom

 

 

A.W.G. Raath

Department of Constitutional Law & Philosophy of Law, University of the Free State. Bloemfontein. E-mail: raathA.RD@ufs.ac.za

 

 


ABSTRACT

The collapse of the medieval political and social order, the rise of the nation state and the emergent absolutism of civil rulers, meant that the early Reformers had to make a clearer demarcation between the natural right to private property and the moral conditions giving rise to such a right, and a clearer delineation of the duties of civil authorities in dealing with private property in civil society. Luther's view that natural right presupposes the existence of moral duty and is intricately connected with the moral uprightness of the owner's activities, produces a number of important perspectives still relevant for the debate concerning the natural rights of individuals to own property and to have the sphere of liberty attached to this right adequately protected.


OPSOMMING

Die verval van die Middeleeuse politieke en sosiale orde, die verskyning van die nasiestaat en die opkoms van burgerlike regeerders, het die vroeë Reformatore genoodsaak om 'n dui-deliker afbakening tussen die natuurlike reg op private eiendom en die morele voorwaardes wat tot sodanige reg aanleiding gee, te tref in hulle oorweging van die rol van private eiendom in die burgerlike samelewing. Luther se siening dat fundamentele regte die bestaan van morele plig veronderstel en nóú verbind is met die moreel-regskape aard van die eienaar se handelinge, het n aantal belangrike perspektiewe opgelewer wat steeds relevant is vir die huidige debat met betrekking tot die fundamentele regte van individue om eiendom te besit en om die vryheidsfeer wat aan hierdie reg verbonde is, voldoende te beskerm.


 

 

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