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 It may be that some version of the Lockean proviso must be contained in a philosophical theory of property. Robert Nozick thought so, and he was a pretty solid libertarian with an strong philosophical bent.Nozick came to the conclusion that what really mattered was no so much that "enough, and as good" was left for people to use or appropriate, but that people were not made worse off by the appropriations of others. At that point we need to think about all the benefits of private property -- higher productivity for example. This is relevant not because Nozick was trying to construct a utilitarian justification for property, but because we need to show that no one is left worse off by allowing some to appropriate various resources. Nozick agreed that there were cases where property rights were made void by unusual circumstances -- if I claim that the only well in a desert is mine, for example. In that case my appropriation does leave others worse off. But in most cases it doesn't. |
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