LABOR THEORY OF PROPERTY BY JOHN LOCKE

Labor Theory of Property by John Locke

Labor Theory of Property by John Locke

Labor Theory of Property by John Locke

Introduction

The shift from natural law to the property (in a wider sense) is carried out by the right. In fact, it is in the extent to which man has duties that it is also natural bearer of law to guarantee him the opportunity to realize their duties. His rights are natural, linked with his person, for the reason that they are based on his nature of humans, what is required to achieve what it is intended naturally and that he revealed the divine law. (Locke, 1690)

Locke sets out three fundamental rights:

Right to life and start a family;

Right to freedom ;

Right to enjoyment of property and particularly the exchange.

These rights describe a sphere of sacredness of the human person, their natural character prohibits it is rightful to make trade or not to recognize them as conventions.

Among those rights that precede all human institutions, Locke thus places the enjoyment of property. In fact, private property is essential for the preservation of life and exercises their human dignity. There is therefore a right to possess everything essential for subsistence.

Locke has established, by the analysis of ideas that all our knowledge relate to our ideas about the relationships they have with each other and their modifications. The knowledge thus consists in the perception we have of the agreement or disagreement of our ideas together. To know is to compare ideas, discover what their relationships are, and judged.

It has been said that the labor theory of property is a custodianship theory of natural law which proper instructions for labor. The property originally comes from the implementation of the work on natural resources (not to be confused with the labor theory of ...