The right to private property: A justification

Social Philosophy and Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-20

  Kekes, John ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 77952593856     PISSN: 02650525     EISSN: 14716437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026505250999001X     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. For surveys and bibliographies, see Lawrence C. Becker, "Property," in Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd ed., ed. Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker (New York: Routledge, 2001);
2. Stephen R. Munser, "Property," in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Craig (London: Routledge, 1998);
3. J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman, eds., Property: Nomos XXII (New York: New York University Press, 1980);
4. and Jeremy Waldron, "Property," in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/property/.
5. This is the approach of Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan; John Locke, Second Treatise of Government;
6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract; and their many contemporary followers.
7. I follow H. L. A. Hart, "Are There Any Natural Rights?" Philosophical Review 64 (1955): 175-91;
8. and H. L. A. Hart, "Utilitarianism and Natural Rights," in Hart, Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983).
9. For an excellent discussion of the complexities of how property should be understood, see Jeremy Waldron, The Right to Private Property (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), part 1.
10. This way of understanding the right to private property is indebted to A. M. Honoré's now classic "Ownership," in Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence, ed. A. G. Guest (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961).
11. Some interest-based attempts at justification are Ronald M. Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977);
12. and Neil MacCormick, Legal Rights and Social Democracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982).
13. John Locke, Second Treatise of Government (1690) (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1980).
14. See, for instance, Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974).
15. Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia , Ibid., 161-163
16. There are numerous defenders of this version. Perhaps the best-known representative is Friedrich A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960);
17. and Hayek, The Mirage of Social Justice, volume II of Law, Legislation, and Liberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976).