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Against Individualistic Justifications of Property Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2006

ROWAN CRUFT
ROWAN CRUFT
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Abstract

In this article I argue that, despite the views of such theorists as Locke, Hart and Raz, most of a person's property rights cannot be individualistically justified. Instead most property rights, if justified at all, must be justified on non-individualistic (e.g. consequentialist) grounds. This, I suggest, implies that most property rights cannot be morally fundamental ‘human rights’.

Type
Research Article
Information
Utilitas , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 154 - 172
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2006

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