From Nozick to welfare rights
Self‐ownership, property, and moral desert
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6251786 |
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| Authors | Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 481-501 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08913810008443570 |
| OpenAlex | W2026754834 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
The Kantian moral foundations of Nozickian libertarianism suggest that the claim that self‐ownership grounds only negative rights to property should be rejected. The moral foundations of Nozick's libertarianism better support basing property rights on moral desert. It is neither incoherent nor implausible to say that need can be a basis for desert. By implication, the libertarian contention that persons ought to be respected as persons living self‐shaping lives is inconsistent with the libertarian refusal to accept that claims of need can sometimes outweigh claims to property
Desert (philosophy · Epistemology · Intellectual property · Law and economics · Libertarianism · Moral rights · Political science · Property (philosophy · Property rights · Sociology · Welfare · Free Will and Agency · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Doing and Deserving
Property and Political Theory
The Principles of Political Economy
A Theory of Justice
Are Property Rights Problematic?
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Two Kinds of Respect
Desert, Virtue, and Justice
Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality
Desert and property rights
Property and Political Theory
Utilitarianism, Hedonism, and Desert
Wilt Chamberlain Revisited
Enough and as Good Left for Others
John Locke Two Treatises of Government
| Highly cited | No |
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