Kant presents private right through an analysis of the categories of Property, Contract, and Status, which form the backbone of all Western legal systems. He introduces them as corresponding to the Categories of Substance, Causality, and Mutual Determination from the Critique of Pure Reason. They provide an exhaustive specification of the possible types of interaction consistent with freedom. Property concerns rights to things; contract rights against persons, and status contains rights to persons "akin to" rights to things.13 Kant remarks that the person/thing dichotomy makes room for only these possibilities. The intuitive idea is that free persons can only interact in three basic ways. They can interact independently, each pursuing his or her separate purposes. This is the structure of innate right. Property has a corresponding structure, because as a proprietor, what is mine is subject to my purposes and nobody else's. I can be wronged with respect to property in the same two ways that I can be wronged with respect to my person: by having my property used on behalf of another, or by being prevented from using my property on my own behalf. I have both possession and use of my property. If you use my house without my permission, you use it on your behalf, not mine; if you damage it, you prevent me from using it on my own behalf. Contract covers the case in which parties interact interdependently andconsensually. If I invite you into my home, you do not wrong me; if I agree to do something for you, my powers to do so are now at your disposal, and you are entitled to use them as specified in our agreement. If I fail to do what I have agreed to do, I wrong you, by depriving you of means that you were entitled to.
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