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Appears in Collections: | Law and Philosophy Journal Articles |
Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
Title: | Against Individualistic Justifications of Property Rights |
Author(s): | Cruft, Rowan |
Contact Email: | Rowan.Cruft@stir.ac.uk |
Keywords: | Human rights Right of property Intellectual property Philosophy |
Issue Date: | Jun-2006 |
Date Deposited: | 12-Aug-2009 |
Citation: | Cruft R (2006) Against Individualistic Justifications of Property Rights. Utilitas, 18 (2), pp. 154-172. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820806001968 |
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’. |
DOI Link: | 10.1017/S0953820806001968 |
Rights: | Published in Utilitas. Copyright: Cambridge University Press.; Utilitas, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2006, pp. 154 - 172, published by Cambridge University Press. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006.; http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=439669 |
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