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Sep 6, 2004 · Private property is an alternative to both collective and common property. In a private property system, property rules are organized around the idea that various contested resources are assigned to the decisional authority of particular individuals (or families or firms).
- Aristotle's Political Theory
Some passages imply that justice involves the advantage of...
- Redistribution
Because international institutions such as markets in...
- Hume's Moral Philosophy
Hume’s position in ethics, which is based on his empiricist...
- Locke, John: Political Philosophy
Labor can generate claims to private property because...
- Ethics and Politics in The Republic
1. Introduction: The Question and the Strategy 1.1 The...
- Aristotle's Political Theory
By "property" he means the possessions of the members of society, private property. In his praises and defenses of legitimate authority, in his expansive views of the extent of legitimate royal powers and pre-rogative in England up to 1688, there is not the slightest hint that the property of Englishmen is ultimately the property of the English
David Hume (1711-1776) claims—much as did Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) —that there is no natural right to property, rather, all property is grounded in the laws of a just society. Hume says, A man’s property is some object related to him. This relation is not natural, but moral, and founded on justice.
In his theoretical discussions, he attacks two basic notions in eighteenth-century political philosophy: the social contract and the instinctive nature of justice regarding private property. In his 1748 essay “Of the Original Contract,” he argues that political allegiance is not grounded in any social contract, but instead on our general ...
The alleged artificiality of the virtue of justice (in the broad sense, including rules of property, promise-keeping, and allegiance to government), and the greater importance attributed to the artificial, rather than the natural, virtues, 84 were the principal causes of this particular charge.
The ‘convention’ needed to create private property rights, Hume writes, depends upon a ‘general sense of common interest’, on the perception that although any single property-respecting act may not bring advantages, indeed may involve loss, still ‘the whole system of actions, concurr’d in by the whole society, is infinitely ...
Hume agrees with Hobbes that property rights are artificial, human creations and he agrees with Locke that they can exist without political authority. Hume’s chief theoretical innovation is his theory of conventions (see ¶10). The example of the rowboat is his primary illustration of this theory.
