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Property

Author : Dr. Raymond Frey
Narrator : Cliff Robertson and Robert Guillaume
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 3 hours
Categories : Knowledge & Learning
Social & Economic
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Property fundamentally marks how we as individuals are related both to other individuals
and to society at large. In its strongest form, property absolutely excludes others from possessing, using,
or in any way controlling what we own. However, others have insisted that basic human necessity (e.g.
hunger) may overrule the power of individual property.

The English philosopher John Locke offered a theory of property against which all others have since been
measured. Locke said that personal property is a natural right, given by God. One line of his argument
emphasizes the human need for self-preservation; here property rights are seen as a necessary instrument
for peacefully distributing natures bounty. Second (and more famously), Locke defends the earliest formation
of property in a series of four steps: (1) every person owns his or her self and capacity to work (i.e. his or her
labor); (2) by mixing what one owns (labor) with natures common property, we make other things our own;
(3) the consent of others is irrelevant to this process of securing property, and (4) as much and as good
of natures bounty must be left for others.

Locke says that in later (modern) conditions of scarcity, money allows property to be accumulated without
spoilageand therefore without harm to others. Property owners have a right to bestow or bequeath what
they own. If all acquisitions and transfers of property have been just, then unequal accumulations of wealth
are not immoral.

David Hume criticized Locke, insisting that property is not a natural right but rather a social convention that
reflects self-interest and the desire to protect what we own. Jeremy Dentham insisted that only government
(rather than society in general) can bestow property rights. Property ultimately involves personal control
and security, as often opposed to other individual interests and to the overall interest or advantage of society.
This tension is seen in issues like slavery, abortion, euthanasia, organ donation, government regulation,
taxation, the power of eminent domain, welfare, and a variety of coercive social programs.

Bowling Green State University

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McCarthy's Bar

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