The Right to Private Property - Tapa dura

This book subjects the claim that private property is one of the rights of man to a comprehensive and critical examination. The author contrasts two types of arguments about rights - those based on historical entitlement, and those based on the importance of property for freedom. He illustrates this contrast with a detailed discussion of the theories of property found in Locke's "Second Treatise" and Hegel's "Philosophy of Right" and concludes with justification for private ownership. The original analyses of the concept of ownership, the idea of rights and the relation between property and equality are also covered here.