The right to private property / Jeremy Waldron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldron, Jeremy, author.

Series:

Clarendon paperbacks.

Clarendon paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right of property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 470 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 1988.

Summary:

Presenting a comprehensive, critical examination of the claim that private property is one of the fundamental rights of humankind, Waldron here contrasts two types of arguments about rights: those based on historical entitlement, and those based on the importance of property for freedom.

Contents:

Pt I: The framework. 1. Introduction

2. What is private property?

3. Rights-based arguments

4. Speical rights and general rights

Pt II: The arguments. 5. Arguing for property

6. Locke's discussion of property

7. Historical entitlement: some difficulties

8. General rights-based arguments for private property

9. The Proudhon strategy

10. Hegel's discussion of property

11. Self-ownership and the opportunity to appropriate

12. Property for all.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-463) and index.

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