The Right to Private Property

by Jeremy Waldron

Book Overview

Presenting a comprehensive, critical examination of the claim that private property is one of the fundamental rights of humankind, Waldron here contrasts two types of arguments about rights: those based on historical entitlement, and those based on the importance of property for freedom. He illustrates this contrast with a detailed discussion of the theories of property found in Locke's Second Treatise and Hegel's Philosophy of Rights, and offers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198239378
• ISBN13: 9780198239376
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"