Proviso solutions Sample Clauses

Proviso solutions. The classic Lockean solution to addressing the costs that individual ownership imposes on those outside the owner/owned-thing relation is found in what is typically referred to as ‘the proviso’. This is Xxxxx’x requirement, as per my list above, regarding leaving ‘enough and as good’ (or ‘EAAG’) for others. As below, the phrase ‘enough, and as good’ has been interpreted variously. However, the ‘EAAG proviso’ is typically taken not only to set a limit on individual ownership, but also to provide a solution for owners and would-be owners to avoid breaching this limit, both at the point of acquisition, and regarding their ongoing holdings. On this view, the proviso represents a condition that, when met (however the terms ‘enough’ and ‘and as good’ are interpreted, substantively), enables individual ownership to occur in a justified manner, in relation to the avoidance or mitigation of the ‘others- related’ costs that arise when things are owned in this way. It is sometimes intimated, therefore, that the EAAG proviso, in itself, provides a moral justification for individual ownership.31 Below, however, I shall contend that the EAAG proviso cannot enable property-owners to address all of the others-related costs that (on a Lockean-liberal model, at least) individual ownership imposes. But that, even if it could, this would not amount to providing moral justification for individual ownership. I shall also discuss two further Lockean ‘provisos’.