Open AccessContemporary Liberal Concepts of Property
Author(s) -
Dariusz Juruś
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
civitas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-0353
pISSN - 1428-2631
DOI - 10.35757/civ.2019.25.05
Subject(s) - entitlement (fair division) , distributive justice , property (philosophy) , property rights , law and economics , political philosophy , distributive property , politics , sociology , liberalism , economic justice , epistemology , bundle of rights , political science , philosophy , law , economics , mathematical economics , mathematics , right to property , pure mathematics , international human rights law , human rights
The author presents the assumptions which form the bedrock of modern liberal property theories. It refers to the conceptions of John Christman, James O. Grunebaum, Lawrence Becker, Stephen R. Munzer and Jeremy Waldron. All these philosophers have devoted separate monographs to the problems of ownership and their works seem representative of the entire liberal current in contemporary political philosophy. This paper does not provide a detailed analysis of the authors’ views on property, but focuses on the elements that these theories share. These are: (1) the bundle theory of property rights; (2) the priority of distributive justice over ownership; (3) the belief that labour is not a property entitlement; (4) the assumption about the separation of production and distribution; (e) the belief in the redistributive role of the state.