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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... turning to some of the controversial works of leading modern writers it will be helpful to try to take a preliminary general view. Can anything of general validity be said about what property is? Not very much, for the reasons just ...
... turns out to be the most unadulterated kind of property. For common property is always a right of the natural individual person, whereas the other two kinds of property are not always so: private property may be a right of either a ...
... alone a genuine natural right could be based, had been perverted by the growth of artificial wants: the turning point was the introduction of unequal private property, which enslaved some men to 3/JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU.
... cultivation. Besides, to devote oneself to that occupation and seed the land, one must be resolved to lose something at first in order to gain a great deal later: a precaution very far from the turn of mind of savage.
Mainstream and Critical Positions C.B. MacPherson. precaution very far from the turn of mind of savage man, who, as I have said, has great difficulty thinking in the morning of his needs for the evening. The invention of the other arts ...