A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PROPERTY OPPOSED TO THE NEW REALISM OF MAURIZIO FERRARIS

Abstract

The present essay compares a phenomenological study of the property with the new realism of Maurizio Ferraris. The comparison shows the limits of the phenomenological perspective and simultaneously the structural moments of its mode of givenness: (1) the intuitive moment; (2) the moment of the request; (3) the moment of the admission; (4) the moment of the ownership. Once the unity of these moments is exposed, the essay shows how the perspective of the new realism would think the property through a new ontology of the object, that is, as a social object related to a social act. The conclusions expose the phenomenological character of the property as a condition of the phenomenological approach in contrast to the Ferrari’s proposal, where the property would be treated as an object. Nevertheless, both perspectives would think the property as an act related to the wish of appropriation, which allows the phenomenological investigation of the will.