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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2015
Print publication year:
2015
Online ISBN:
9781316155592
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316155592
Subjects:
Law, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy, Property Law
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Book description

Property and Practical Reason makes a moral argument for common law property institutions and norms, and challenges the prevailing dichotomy between individual rights and state interests and its assumption that individual preferences and the good of communities must be in conflict. One can understand competing intuitions about private property rights by considering how private property enables owners and their collaborators to exercise practical reason consistent with the requirements of reason, and thereby to become practically reasonable agents of deliberation and choice who promote various aspects of the common good. The plural and mediated domains of property ownership, though imperfect, have moral benefits for all members of the community. They enable communities and institutions of private ordering to pursue plural and incommensurable good ends while specifying the boundaries of property rights consistent with basic moral requirements.

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'Property and Practical Reason's wider significance is that it provides a template for further investigations of institutions that touch directly on economic life from the perspective of practical reason.'

Samuel Gregg Source: Public Discourse

'Adam MacLeod is … a figure to watch, a fresh and tempered voice in the increasingly ideological field of jurisprudence and legal theory … this book should be read …'

Allen Mendenhall Source: Online Library of Law and Liberty (www.libertylawsite.org)

'MacLeod elaborates at length on what so many have forgotten: that the freedom established by private property has not only helped ‘countless inventors, entrepreneurs, artists, scientists, and authors to make the world a more livable, beautiful and healthy place'.'

Samuel Gregg Source: Public Discourse

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