Tag: land

  • Genealogies of Property

    Main source: Waldron, Jeremy, “Property and Ownership”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . Genealogies of Property From: Historical Overview of Property In our philosophical tradition, arguments about the justification of property have often been presented as genealogies: as stories about the way in which private property…

  • Historical Overview of Property

    main source: Waldron, Jeremy, “Property and Ownership”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . Historical Overview of Property From: Property and Ownership in Philosophy There are extensive discussions of property in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hegel, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Marx, and Mill. The range…

  • Property and Ownership in Philosophy

    Main source: Waldron, Jeremy, “Property and Ownership”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . Property and Ownership in Philosophy Property is a general term for rules governing access to and control of land and other material resources. Because these rules are disputed, both in regard to their…