The Project Pursuit Argument for Self-Ownership and Private Property
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20317479 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fabian Wendt (0000-0002-5557-4971, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 583-605 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Theory and Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-802X • E-ISSN: 2154-123X |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/soctheorpract2022531165 |
| OpenAlex | W4285140419 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The article argues that persons should be conceived as self-owners and entitled to acquire private property within justifiable property conventions because they should be able to live as project pursuers. This is the ‘project pursuit argument’. It leads to a conception of self-ownership that is stringent, but weaker than standard libertarian notions of self-ownership, and to an understanding of private property as a convention that has to meet a sufficientarian threshold in order to be justifiable
Argument (complex analysis) · Business · Convention · Epistemology · Law and economics · Order (exchange) · Political science · Private property · Property (philosophy) · Property rights · Public property · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Property Rights and Legal Doctrine
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |