Property / Edition 1

Property / Edition 1

by Robert Lamb
ISBN-10:
150951919X
ISBN-13:
9781509519194
Pub. Date:
01/05/2021
Publisher:
Polity Press
ISBN-10:
150951919X
ISBN-13:
9781509519194
Pub. Date:
01/05/2021
Publisher:
Polity Press
Property / Edition 1

Property / Edition 1

by Robert Lamb

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Overview

Few political ideas are as divisive and controversial for some – and yet taken for granted by others – as the ownership of private property. For its defenders, private ownership is a fundamental right that protects individual freedom and ensures wider economic benefits for the community; for its critics, by contrast, property is institutionalised theft, responsible for lamentable levels of inequality and poverty.

In this book, Robert Lamb explores philosophical arguments deployed to conceptualise, justify, and criticise private property ownership. He introduces the radical case against property advanced by anarchist and socialist writers, before analysing some of the most important and influential arguments in its favour. Lamb explains and assesses the various defences of property rights advanced by Locke, Hume, Hegel, J. S. Mill, and Nozick. He then shows how theorists such as John Rawls and his followers encourage us to rethink the very nature of ownership in a democratic society.

This engaging synthesis of historical and contemporary theories of property will be essential reading for students and scholars of political philosophy.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781509519194
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 01/05/2021
Series: Key Concepts in Political Theory
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Robert Lamb is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii

Introduction: What is Property? 1

1 The Case against Private Property 18

2 Libertarianism and the Natural Right to Property 34

3 Natural Law and the Gnarled Roots of Self-Ownership 55

4 Property for the Greater Good: Utilitarian Theories of Ownership 76

5 Ownership as Will in the World: Hegel's Account of Property 98

6 Property within Justice: Rawls and Beyond 119

Conclusion 137

Notes 140

Bibliography 146

Index 153

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