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This critical examination of the rights of private property contrasts two types of arguments about rights: those based on historical entitlement, and those based on the importance of property to freedom. The text explores the concept of ownership, and the relation between property and equality.

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• Part 1 The Framework
• Introduction
• What is private property?
• Right-based arguments
• Special rights and general rights
• Part 2 The arguments: Arguing for property
• Locke's discussion of property
• Historical entitlement: some difficulties
• General-right-based arguments for private property
• The Proudhon Strategy
• Hegel's discussion of property
• Self-ownership and the opportunity to appropriate
• Property for all
• Bibliography
• Index

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Waldron (Cornell University) analyzes basic arguments justifying private property. Locke, for example, saw that God's gift of nature's resources to humanity did not establish private property. Yet he thought that by one's labor, necessarily satisfying oneself, one also increased resources for all, recreating a form of human community under conditions of scarcity. Is this a right or is it socially useful? For Hegel, property is essential to persons finding their full moral potential in consenting to the necessary presence of the community in themselves, presupposed in expressing themselves as selves--justification both utilitarian and rights-based. Waldron discusses arguments from Marx to Nozick, seeking to clarify different meanings of "property" and the "right" to it, and to improve public debate. To be put beside Alan Ryan's Property and Political Theory (CH, Mar'85) and Flathman's Philosophy and Politics of Freedom (CH, Sep'87). For upper-division undergraduate and graduate students of modern political philosophy. -T. Fuller, Colorado College