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Property and Human Flourishing


ISBN13: 9780190860745
Published: May 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £96.00



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Many people assume that what morally justifies private ownership of property is either individual freedom or social welfare, defined in terms of maximizing personal preference-satisfaction.

This book offers an alternative way of understanding the moral underpinning of private ownership of property. Rather than identifying any single moral value, this book argues that human flourishing, understood as morally pluralistic and objective, is property's moral foundation.

The book goes on to develop a theory that connects ownership and human flourishing with obligations. Owners have obligations to members of the communities that enabled the owners to live flourishing lives by cultivating in their community members certain capabilities that are essential to leading a well-lived life. These obligations are rooted in the interdependence that exists between owners and their community members, and inherent in the human condition.

Obligations have always been inherent in ownership. Owners are not free to inflict nuisances upon their neighbors, for example, by operating piggeries in residential neighborhoods. The human flourishing theory explains why owners at times have obligations that enable their fellow community members to develop certain necessary capabilities, such as health care and security. This is why, for example, farm owners may be required to allow providers of health care and legal assistance to enter their property to assist employees who are migrant workers.

Moving from the abstract and theoretical to the practical, this book considers implications for a wide variety of property issues of importance both in the literature and in modern society. These include questions such as: When is a government's expropriation of property legitimated for the reason it is for public use?

May the owner of a historic or architecturally significant house destroy it without restriction? Do institutions that owned African slaves or otherwise profited from the slave trade owe any obligations to members of the African-American community? What insights may be gained from the human flourishing concept into resolving current housing problems like homelessness, eviction, and mortgage foreclosure?

Subjects:
Jurisprudence
Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I: Human Flourishing
Chapter One: Flourishing and Welfare

Part II: Ownership
Chapter Two: Ownership and Obligations
Chapter Three: Community and Communities

Part III: Obligations
Chapter Four: Intergenerational Communities
Chapter Five: The Complexities of Land Reparations
Chapter Six: The Right to Exclude
Chapter Seven: Expropriations and Eminent Domain
Chapter Eight: Of Buildings, Art, and Sperm: The Right to Destroy and the Duty to Preserve
Chapter Nine: Race and Property
Chapter Ten: Homelessness and Other Systemic Housing Problems

Bibliography
Index