Questions arising Sample Clauses

Questions arising. For my purposes, the key questions arising from this summary of Lockean property theory, beyond those about its internal coherence, regard how well it fits the core tenets of Lockean liberalism. I shall discuss Lockean liberalism in full in Chapter 2. But as above, it is an approach on which right and wrong are a matter of objective truth, discoverable through perception and reflection. It is an approach on which key fundamental values, including freedom and equality, are baked into conceptions of justified action and authority. In Lockean political society, therefore, objective moral truths govern not only the justified actions of those holding justified political authority, but also the ways in which all societal members should behave towards one another — not only as human beings alike in basic status, but also as equal members of a shared political society. An obvious question arising regarding ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ approach to property, therefore, relates as above to what amounts to a satisfactory justification, in political society, for the kind of property rights that allow individuals to have demanding exclusive and exclusionary relations with external things. Again, at the most simplistic level, this query arises because the ideas of exclusivity and exclusion seem inherently in tension with central Lockean commitments to (equally-held) freedom and equality. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ observes this tension: ‘Private property’ refers to a kind of system that allocates particular objects like pieces of land to particular individuals to use and manage as they please, to the exclusion of others (even others who have a greater need for the resources) and to the exclusion also of any detailed control by society. Though these exclusions make the idea of private property seem problematic, philosophers have often argued that it is necessary for the ethical development 28 e.g., ▇▇▇▇▇, Second Treatise, 23-24 (§37). of the individual, or for the creation of a social environment in which people can prosper as free and responsible agents.29 This basic question about the Lockean justification for exclusive and exclusionary ownerships can be extended in various morally potent relevant ways, therefore. Not least: what is the justification for exclusive and exclusionary relationships with finite resources of the kinds required to meet basic human need? And what is the justification for such relationships with resources that are, naturally, seemingly ‘fair game’ for all? These considerations seem pa...