The first chapter of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, it states that abstract right is the inherently single will of a subject confronting an external world. Hence the imperative of right is "be a person and respect others as persons." So having rights is at the very root of being a person; a thing, as something devoid of will, has no rights against the subjectivity of intelligence and volition The most fundamental expression of right, according to Hegel, is the giving of particularity to right in the form of a thing, i.e. in the form of property and possession.