Journal article
Rights, property and community
- Abstract:
- Property rights are commonly thought to be absolute and sacrosanct. Utilitarian theorists, such as Locke, have encouraged a further belief that property rights are synonymous with individual liberty. A number of more recent writers have claimed that these rights are moral values independent of the particular (capitalist) structure of society. Moreover, there is a supposed conflict between the community good and individual liberty. These notions are criticized from a Structuralist perspective which presumes that individuals have meaning only in a social context. It is also claimed, contrary to utilitarian notions, that values themselves (whether defined as the deep causes of inequality or not) can only be derived from the community.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Clark University
- Journal:
- Economic Geography More from this journal
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 120-138
- Publication date:
- 1982-04-01
- ISSN:
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00130095
- Language:
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English
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2008-05-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Clark University
- Copyright date:
- 1982
- Notes:
- We are not permitted to make the full-text of this article available in ORA. Citation: Clark, G. L. (1982). 'Rights, property and community', Economic Geography, 58(2), 120-138.
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