Complicating Private Property | Prof. Joseph Capizzi

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🗓️ 4 April 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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This lecture was given at the University of South Carolina on February 20, 2020.

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Joseph E. Capizzi is Ordinary Professor of Moral Theology at the Catholic University of America. He teaches in the areas of social and political theology, with special interests in issues in peace and war, citizenship, political authority, and Augustinian theology. He has written, lectured, and published widely on just war theory, bioethics, the history of moral theology, and political liberalism.

Dr. Capizzi is the Executive Director of the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, his Masters in Theological Studies from Emory University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. He lives in Maryland with his wife and six children.

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0:00.0	I'm going to talk about private property. The title, you know, that you saw on the flyers, is complicating private property.
0:06.0	And when I say like I'm going to complicate something, what I'm going to do is I'm going to sort of give us a sense of
0:11.0	what the church says about private possession or private property. And then I'm going to open questions about it. This is how I approach subjects. It's how I do my research. I don't
0:23.0	typically try to solve a problem or, you know, find a solution. I actually try to raise more
0:30.5	questions about something, because I think there are often certain things we just assume about,
0:35.7	that we know about things like private property and so on.
0:38.9	So I'm going to move forward and give you, I hope, a little introduction into what we're doing.
0:45.2	This is the outline of the discussion, just so you have a sense of where we're going,
0:49.7	where we're going together.
0:51.6	Feel free to interrupt me, by the way, if I say something too quickly, or if you miss
0:55.8	something, or if you have a question about something, I say, don't hesitate to interrupt me.
0:59.5	I have six children.
1:01.0	I'm used to being interrupted and trying to reclaim my train of thought.
1:05.3	I'm going to start, as I said, with the church's teaching.
1:08.3	I'm going to talk a little bit about what's baked into that teaching.
1:12.5	The teaching, again, can seem kind of flat and one-dimensional to us, but there's a lot.
1:19.6	There shouldn't be a surprise. There's a lot that's baked into it. It's a roughly 2,000-year
1:24.1	process of developing thinking on this. And then I'm going to talk a little bit about
1:29.2	property and the person looking at Thomas Aquinas, since this is a Thomistic Institute thing.
1:35.8	I'm actually not, like I don't consider myself a scholar of Thomas Aquinas. I study Thomas Aquinas,
1:40.5	but I study him, you know, much as I study other theologians or other philosophers
1:45.4	that are in or engaged with the Catholic tradition over time. I'll talk a little bit about
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