Personal property is constitutive of the self, so alienating it harms the person

Evidence

I have used the term “personal property” to refer to categories of property that we understand to be bound up with the self in a way that we understand to be morally justifiable … Since personal property is connected with the self, morally justifiably, in a constitutive way, to disconnect it from the person (from the self) harms or destroys the self. The more something takes on the indicia of an attribute or characteristic of the self, or at least the self as the person herself would wish, the more problematic it seems to alienate it … — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 307

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘personal property’ as a liberalism concept distinct from mere legal property, grounded in self-constitution.
• XREF: Relates to the reader’s existing liberalism-of-property literature and to Margaret Radin’s theory of incomplete commodification. — connects to: Data collection itself, not just its uses, harms the self’s integrity — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 473; Self-alienation in property explains ownership’s intensity beyond mere utility. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 146; If people no longer own themselves, they cannot be said to be influenced — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 95 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Self-alienation in property explains ownership’s intensity beyond mere utility. #corroborates (0.90) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 146
• Human beings have an inherent property right in their own bodies #corroborates (0.85) — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1265
• If people no longer own themselves, they cannot be said to be influenced #responds-to (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 95
• Domesticity is an alibi for conflating person with property #complicates (0.80) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 124
• Freedom constitutes my being rather than attaching to it as a property #qualifies (0.75)
• Possession defends the self against the Other’s power to define it #corroborates (0.75)