Property and Justice

Property and Justice
Author: J. W. Harris
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1996-10-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0191024457

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When philosophers put forward claims for or against 'property', it is often unclear whether they are talking about the same thing that lawyers mean by 'property'. Likewise, when lawyers appeal to 'justice' in interpreting or criticizing legal rules we do not know if they have in mind something that philosophers would recognize as 'justice'. Bridging the gulf between juristic writing on property and speculations about it appearing in the tradition of western political philosophy, Professor Harris has built from entirely new foundations an analytical framework for understanding the nature of property and its connection with justice. Property and Justice ranges over natural property rights; property as a prerequisite of freedom; incentives and markets; demands for equality of resources; property as domination; property and basic needs; and the question of whether property should be extended to information and human bodily parts. It maintains that property institutions deal both with the use of things and the allocation of wealth, and that everyone has a 'right' that society should provide such an institution.

Property and Justice

Property and Justice
Author: Billy Christmas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000370070

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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. 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.

Property Rights and Social Justice

Property Rights and Social Justice
Author: Rachael Walsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2021-06-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 110842693X

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Analyses the mediation of property rights and social justice through the prism of 'progressive' constitutional property rights guarantees.

Property and Justice

Property and Justice
Author: James W. Harris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2002
Genre: Justice
ISBN: 9780191681998

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Property is a legal and social institution governing the use of most things and the allocation of some items of social welfare. Harris examines the legal and philosophical underpinnings of the concept and the nature of its connection with justice.

Property and Justice

Property and Justice
Author: Billy Christmas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2021-03-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000370062

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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. 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.

Robert Nozick

Robert Nozick
Author: Jonathan Wolff
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2018-03-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0745680437

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Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia is one of the works which dominates contemporary debate in political philosophy. Drawing on traditional assumptions associated with individualism and libertarianism, Nozick mounts a powerful argument for a minimal `nightwatchman' state and challenges the views of many contemporary philosophers, most notably John Rawls. Jonathan Wolff's new book is the first full-length study of Nozick's work and of the debates to which it has given rise. He situates Nozick's work in the context of current debates and examines the traditions which have influenced his thought. He then critically reconstructs the key arguments of Anarchy, State and Utopia, focusing on Nozick's Doctrine of Rights, his Derivation of the Minimal State, and his Entitlement Theory of Justice. The book concludes by assessing Nozick's place in contemporary political philosophy.

Property-Owning Democracy

Property-Owning Democracy
Author: Martin O'Neill
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2012-01-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1444355171

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Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond features a collection of original essays that represent the first extended treatment of political philosopher John Rawls' idea of a property-owning democracy. Offers new and essential insights into Rawls's idea of "property-owning democracy" Addresses the proposed political and economic institutions and policies which Rawls's theory would require Considers radical alternatives to existing forms of capitalism Provides a major contribution to debates among progressive policymakers and activists about the programmatic direction progressive politics should take in the near future

From Goods to a Good Life

From Goods to a Good Life
Author: Madhavi Sunder
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 030014671X

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A law professor draws from social and cultural theory to defend her idea that that intellectual property law affects the ability of citizens to live a good life and prohibits people from making and sharing culture.

A Theory of Property

A Theory of Property
Author: Stephen R. Munzer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1990-01-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521378864

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This book represents a major new statement on the issue of property rights. It argues for the justification of some rights of private property while showing why unequal distributions of private property are indefensible.

A Theory of Justice

A Theory of Justice
Author: John RAWLS
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674042603

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Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.