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Me, Myself & Mine: The Scope of Ownership

Jaworski, Peter Martin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1334774888

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2012, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Philosophy, Applied.
This dissertation is an attempt to defend the following thesis: The scope of legitimate ownership claims is much more narrow than what Lockean liberals have traditionally thought. Firstly, it is more narrow with respect to the particular claims that are justified by Locke’s labour-mixing argument. It is more difficult to come to own things in the first place. Secondly, it is more narrow with respect to the kinds of things that are open to the ownership relation. Some things, like persons and, maybe, cultural artifacts, are not open to the ownership relation but are, rather, fit objects for the guardianship, in the case of the former, and stewardship, in the case of the latter, relationship. To own, rather than merely have a property in, some object requires the liberty to smash, sell, or let spoil the object owned. Finally, the scope of ownership claims appear to be restricted over time. We can lose our claims in virtue of a change in us, a change that makes it the case that we are no longer responsible for some past action, like the morally interesting action required for justifying ownership claims.
Fred Miller (Committee Chair)
David Shoemaker (Committee Member)
Steven Wall (Committee Member)
Daniel Jacobson (Committee Member)
Neil Englehart (Committee Member)
175 p.
Philosophy; Political Science
Locke; ownership; property rights; initial acquisition; original appropriation; historical entitlement; personal identity; psychological criterion

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  • Jaworski, P. M. (2012). Me, Myself & Mine: The Scope of Ownership [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1334774888

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jaworski, Peter. Me, Myself & Mine: The Scope of Ownership. 2012. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1334774888.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jaworski, Peter. "Me, Myself & Mine: The Scope of Ownership." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1334774888

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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