Property and Human Flourishing

by Gregory S Alexander and Gregory S. Alexander

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019086074X
• ISBN13: 9780190860745
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"