This book gives an account of a full spectrum of property rights and their relationship to individual liberty. It shows that a purely deontological approach to justice can deal with the most complex questions regarding the property system. Moreover, the author considers the economic, ecological, and technological complexities of our real-world property systems. The result is a more conceptually sound account of natural rights and the property system they demand.If we think that liberty should be at the centre of justice, what does that mean for the property system? Economists and lawyers widely agree that a property system must be composed of many different types of property: the kind of private ownership one has over one’s person and immediate possessions, as well as the kinds of common ownership we each have in our local streets, as well as many more. However, theories of property and justice have not given anything approaching an adequate account of the relationship between liberty and any other form of property other than private ownership. It is often thought that a basic commitment to liberty cannot really tell us how to arrange the major complexities of the property system, which diverge from simple private ownership.Property and Justice demonstrates how philosophical rigour coupled with interdisciplinary engagement enables us to think clearly about how to deal with real-world problems. It will be of interest to political philosophers, political theorists, and legal theorists working on property rights and justice.
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This book gives an account of a full spectrum of property rights and their relationship to individual liberty. It shows that a purely deontological approach to justice can deal with the most complex questions regarding the property system.
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Introduction 1Property and Justice 1Original Acquisition: Connecting Property to Personhood 3Beyond Private Property 5Natural Rights and Social Conventions 8The Not-So-Minimum Content of Natural Rights 9The Theory 111 The Form of Justice 16Introduction 16The Circumstances of Justice and Deontology 17Individual Rights 22Compossibility 24Conclusion 322 The Substance of Justice 37Introduction 37The Right to Non-Interference in Our Non-Interfering Actions 37The One and Only Right 43Kinds of Interference 45Self-Ownership 48Necessity 51Conclusion 543 Original Acquisition 59Introduction 59Use, Exclusion, and Ownership 60Extended Activity 68Contra Labour-Mixing 73Abandonment and Transfer 77Conclusion 814 The Commons 87Introduction 87Liberty and Property After Ostrom 88Public Property 94Collective Property 95Conclusion 995 The Limits to Appropriation 103Introduction 103Necessity, Revisited 103Against Engrossment 107Against Intellectual Property 109Intellectual Property as Ownership of Ideas 109Intellectual Property as Usufruct 111Conclusion 1146 Against the Proviso 118Introduction 118Nozick’s Proviso 119The Egalitarian Proviso 126Internal Accounts of the Provisos 129Conclusion 1317 Intentions and Conventions 135Introduction 135Intentions: Public and Private 136Conventions: Constitutive and Regulative 145Natural Rights and Social Change 152Conclusion 155Conclusion: Natural Rights and Liberal Politics 158
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"Property is arguably the foundational issue in legal and political philosophy. Billy Christmas insightfully illuminates this foundational issue by elaborating a radical liberal—libertarian—theory of property. This provocative book will surely spur controversy and deepen understanding by showing how a libertarian account of property rights can address the perennial concerns of libertarianism’s critics while grounding robust safeguards for autonomy and flourishing." – Gary Chartier, La Sierra University, USA"This book is the first serious attempt to combine a right-libertarian theory of individual private property with a solid theory of other forms of property, such as collective, public, and common property. It makes for a much more plausible and humane theory of property." – Karl Widerquist, Georgetown University-Qatar
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ISBN
9780367752668
Publisert
2023-05-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
320 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
184

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Biographical note

Billy Christmas is a Lecturer in Political Theory at King’s College London in the Department of Political Economy, where he is also the PPE Programme Director. As a philosopher his research interests lie in Rights, Property, and Political Authority. He has previously published articles in journals such as The Journal of Politics, Economics and Philosophy, and The Philosophical Quarterly