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3 - Autonomy and Private Authority

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2021

Hanoch Dagan
Hanoch Dagan
Affiliation:
Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
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My task in this book is to develop a theory of property premised on a conception of autonomy as self-determination or self-authorship, terms that I use interchangeably. In this account, property empowers self-determining individuals to pursue their conception of the good, and this autonomy-enhancing telos legitimizes property and shapes its legal contours. I am not claiming that propertyless individuals cannot be self-determining, but rather that property tends to make an important contribution to personal self-authorship.

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self-determinationindependencepersonhoodcommunityutilityultimate valueintrinsic valueinstrumental valuenormative powerslegitimacydistributive justiceneutrality
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A Liberal Theory of Property , pp. 41 - 78
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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