Property: Mainstream and Critical PositionsC.B. MacPherson University of Toronto Press, 15. 12. 1999. - 210 страница The legitimate role of the state in relation to property and the justification of property institutions of various kinds are matters of increasing concern in the modern world. Political and social theorists, jurists, economists, and historians have taken positions for and against the property institutions upheld in their time by the state, and further dehate seems inevitable. This book brings together ten classic statements which set out the main arguments that are now appealed to and places them in historical and critical perspective. The extracts presented here – all substantial – are from Loeke, Rousseau, Bentham, Marx, Mill, Green, Veblen, Tawney, Morris Cohen, and Charles Reich. A note hy the editor at the head of each extract highlights the arguments in it and relates it to the time at which it was written. Professor Macpherson's introductory and concluding essays expose the roots of some common misconceptions of property, identify current changes in the concept of property, and predict future changes. Macpherson argues that a specific change in the concept (which now appears possible) is needed to rescue liberal democracy from its present impasse. Property is both a valuable text on a crucial topic in political and social theory and a significant contribution to the continuing debate |
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... body to enforce it. The only body that is extensive enough to enforce it is a whole organized society itself or its specialized organization, the state; and in modern (i.e., post-feudal) societies the enforcing body has always been the ...
Mainstream and Critical Positions C.B. MacPherson. body has always been the state, the political institution of the modern age. So property is a political phenomenon. That property is a political relation between persons is equally ...
... body of citizens but a smaller body of persons who have been authorized (whether by the whole body of citizens or not) to command the citizens. Although Idealist philosophers, in order to emphasize their belief.
... body of persons that is authorized by the citizens in a democracy is not the whole body of citizens. It acts in their name, but it is not they. And it is the body that holds the rights called state property. When the state is seen in ...
... bodies and on judicial interpretations of their powers; when the right to engage in various kinds of enterprise depends on legislative enactments and administrative and judicial rulings; when the right to a pension or social security ...