September 4, 2026
Self-Ownership
If self-ownership means having a right to one’s own body, one’s own life, and the fruits of one’s labor (property, in reality), this right is always exercised within what is not regulated by society—which is actually very little.
It should also be borne in mind that reality itself imposes many further and stronger constraints, making us realize that our freedom is constantly becoming more limited: for example, I would like to travel, but I do not have the money, or I would like a cake, but I have diabetes.
Many philosophers then argue that true freedom consists in following moral laws, because only in this way can a person fulfill himself, and that would be true freedom.
Kant said: “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration: the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.”