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OverviewMany 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 moral foundation. The book goes on to develop a theory that connects ownership and human flourishing with obligations. Owners have obligations to members of the communities that enabled the owners to live flourishing lives by cultivating in their community members certain capabilities that are essential to leading a well-lived life. These obligations are rooted in the interdependence that exists between owners and their community members, and inherent in the human condition. Obligations have always been inherent in ownership. Owners are not free to inflict nuisances upon their neighbors, for example, by operating piggeries in residential neighborhoods. The human flourishing theory explains why owners at times have obligations that enable their fellow community members to develop certain necessary capabilities, such as health care and security. This is why, for example, farm owners may be required to allow providers of health care and legal assistance to enter their property to assist employees who are migrant workers. Moving from the abstract and theoretical to the practical, this book considers implications for a wide variety of property issues of importance both in the literature and in modern society. These include questions such as: When is a government's expropriation of property legitimated for the reason it is for public use? May the owner of a historic or architecturally significant house destroy it without restriction? Do institutions that owned African slaves or otherwise profited from the slave trade owe any obligations to members of the African-American community? What insights may be gained from the human flourishing concept into resolving current housing problems like homelessness, eviction, and mortgage foreclosure? Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gregory S. Alexander (A. Robert Noll Professor of Law, A. Robert Noll Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 16.30cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9780190860745ISBN 10: 019086074 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 26 April 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I: Human Flourishing Chapter One: Flourishing and Welfare Part II: Ownership Chapter Two: Ownership and Obligations Chapter Three: Community and Communities Part III: Obligations Chapter Four: Intergenerational Communities Chapter Five: The Complexities of Land Reparations Chapter Six: The Right to Exclude Chapter Seven: Expropriations and Eminent Domain Chapter Eight: Of Buildings, Art, and Sperm: The Right to Destroy and the Duty to Preserve Chapter Nine: Race and Property Chapter Ten: Homelessness and Other Systemic Housing Problems Bibliography IndexReviews"""A nuanced and entirely new theory of property that reconciles individual autonomy and community. Professor Alexander shows that property exists to promote human flourishing, and that is why - and how - property law places obligations on owners. Thrilling to read and an instant classic."" Joseph William Singer, Bussey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School ""Gregory Alexander's Property and Human Flourishing is essential reading for anyone serious about property law and theory. It offers a progressive alternative to the dominant libertarian and welfarist conceptions of property. This is a major work, providing a comprehensive defense and a nuanced refinement of Alexander's innovative human flourishing theory of property."" - Hanoch Dagan, Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law" A nuanced and entirely new theory of property that reconciles individual autonomy and community. Professor Alexander shows that property exists to promote human flourishing, and that is why - and how - property law places obligations on owners. Thrilling to read and an instant classic. Joseph William Singer, Bussey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Gregory Alexander's Property and Human Flourishing is essential reading for anyone serious about property law and theory. It offers a progressive alternative to the dominant libertarian and welfarist conceptions of property. This is a major work, providing a comprehensive defense and a nuanced refinement of Alexander's innovative human flourishing theory of property. - Hanoch Dagan, Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law A nuanced and entirely new theory of property that reconciles individual autonomy and community. Professor Alexander shows that property exists to promote human flourishing, and that is why - and how - property law places obligations on owners. Thrilling to read and an instant classic. Joseph William Singer, Bussey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Author InformationGregory S. Alexander is the A. Robert Noll Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. He is a nationally renowned expert in property law, and he has taught at Cornell since 1985. Alexander has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, in Palo Alto, California, and at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Law, in Hamburg and Heidelberg, Germany. Professor Alexander is a prolific and recognized writer, the winner of the American Publishers Association's 1997 Best Book of the Year in Law award for his work, Commodity and Propriety. His previous Oxford book is Property and Community (edited with Eduardo M. Peñalver) 2010. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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