Ideas
“as property”
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spoken of as
2 expressionsIdea“as a Product of Labor”4 mentions
The Law of Intellectual Property (English) · Letters to Lucilius (Latin)
who can pretend that his labor, in actually creating commodities—as ideas, for example—which before had no existence, does not give him at least an equal, if not a superior, right to an absolute dominion over them?
The Idea2 mentions
The Law of Intellectual Property (English) · Letters to Lucilius (Latin)
The machine, too, as a whole—that is, the wood, iron, or other corporeal substances, with the effects produced upon them, or the shapes given to them, by the idea of the inventor and the labor of the machinist—is clearly, in fact and in law, a distinct entity from the idea of the inventor, which can exist only in the mind.
in the texts
The Law of Intellectual Property
The concept of ideas considered as objects of ownership.
On the other hand, if we admit a right of property in incorporeal things at all, then ideas are as clearly legitimate subjects of property, as any other incorporeal things that can be named.
The conclusions, that follow from the principles now established, obviously are, that a man has a natural and absolute right—and if a natural and absolute, then necessarily a perpetual, right—of property, in the ideas, of which he is the discoverer or creator;
If that point be established, it is self-evident that ideas are naturally subjects of property;
Letters to Lucilius
Plato's third genus of being: eternal, unchangeable patterns from which things that come to be by nature are shaped.
he calls them Ideas, from which all things that we see come to be, and according to which all things are shaped.
What this eidos is, you must attend, and charge Plato, not me, with the difficulty of the matter.
the eidos is in the work, the Idea outside the work — and not only outside the work, but before the work.