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Richard J. Arneson Lockean self-ownership: Towards a demolition article Self-ownership, the moral principle that one ought to be left free to do whatever one wants so long as non-consenting other persons are not thereby harmed, is clarified, and its implications for justified private property ownership are developed. Reasons for rejecting the self-ownership principle are suggested.

Lockean self-ownership: Towards a demolition

Richard J. Arneson

Political Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, 1991, pp. 36–54

Abstract

Self-ownership, the moral principle that one ought to be left free to do whatever one wants so long as non-consenting other persons are not thereby harmed, is clarified, and its implications for justified private property ownership are developed. Reasons for rejecting the self-ownership principle are suggested.

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