"This is why it is wrong to steal (and to covet). Stealing is to the accidental properties of a man as murder or enslavement is to his essential properties. Both sorts of crime prevent the realization in act of a man’s Providential telos. We are bound to respect a man’s proprietary relations to objects over which he has power, for the same sort of reason we are obliged to respect his proprietary relations to his essential features. [1] [2] A failure of either sort of respect to a man has the same result: the prevention of the perfection in act of his Providential telos."
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 13:30:05 +0000
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