Single Idea 23049

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights]

Full Idea

The rationale of property is that every one should be secured by society in the power of getting and keeping the means of realising a will which in possibility is a will directed to social good.

Gist of Idea

Property is needed by all citizens, to empower them to achieve social goods

Source

T.H. Green (Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation [1882], §220), quoted by John H. Muirhead - The Service of the State III

Book Reference

Muirhead,John H.: 'The Service of the State: T.H. Green' [John Murray 2021], p.80


A Reaction

An interesting argument. If you want free citizens in a liberal society to be capable of achieving social good, you must allow them the right to acquire the means of doing so.