The Natural and Artificial Right of Property, Contrasted (Large Print Edition)

The Natural and Artificial Right of Property, Contrasted (Large Print Edition)
Author: Thomas Hodgskin
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Total Pages: 392
Release: 2014-05-24
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ISBN: 9781499637205

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LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com. In this series of letters to Lord Braugham, Hodgskin distinguishes between the natural right of property (based upon Lockean principles of natural law) and the artificial right of property (which is decreed by parliament). He associated the doctrine of the artificial right of property with Benthamite reformers who were attempting to reform the English state.

The Ricardian Socialists

The Ricardian Socialists
Author: T. A. Kenyon
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
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ISBN: 9780415122139

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Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy: Volume 29, Part 2

Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy: Volume 29, Part 2
Author: Ellen Frankel Paul
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2012-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107641942

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"In 1776, the American Declaration of Independence appealed to "the Laws of nature and of Nature's God" and affirmed "these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness . . . ." In 1935, John Dewey, professor of philosophy at Columbia University, declared, "Natural rights and natural liberties exist only in the kingdom of mythological social zoology." These opposing pronouncements on natural rights represent two separate and antithetical American political traditions: natural rights individualism, the original Lockean tradition of the Founding; and Progressivism, the collectivist reaction to individualism which arose initially in the newly established universities in the decades following the Civil War"--