PHILOS 1C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Spencer Locke, Primogeniture
6 Apr 2016
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More importantly by what right can any individual lay claim to private property. How labour creates the right of ownership. The things nature affords" belong to no one in particular, but everyone in common ( nobody has private dominion exclusive of the the rest of mankind ) However - in order for the mto subsist," nature" must be used in various ways by individuals on it. When one individual appropriates a part of nature" for himself it becomes a part of him". Each individual has property in his own person ie the life of any individual belongs to that individual alone. When a person appropriates a part of nature to himself, he does so through labour. The act of labour removes a part of nature held in common and joins it to the individual to whom the labour itself belongs. In the event that a person appropriates a part of nature they are going to do this through labour.
