 Nor was this appropriation of any parcel of land, by improving it, any prejudice to any other man, since there was still enough and as good left, and more than the yet unprovided could use.  The Works of John Locke - Page 356by John Locke - 1823Full view - About this book
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1967 - 548 pages
...to, nor could without injury take from him. 3 3 . Nor was this appropriation of any parcel of Load, by improving it, any prejudice to any other Man, since...was never the less left for others because of his inclosure for himself. For he that leaves 3 as much as another can make use of, does as good as take... | |
 | Crawford Brough Macpherson - Business & Economics - 1978 - 228 pages
...something that was his Property, which another had no Title to, nor could without injury take from him. 33. Nor was this appropriation of any parcel of Land,...was never the less left for others because of his inclosure for himself. For he that leaves as much as another can make use of, does as good as take... | |
 | James Tully - Business & Economics - 1982 - 216 pages
...quantitative (enough) and qualitative (as good) proviso is fulfilled in the early stages of man's history: 'Nor was this appropriation of any parcel of Land,...left; and more than the yet unprovided could use' (2.33). Once the proviso no longer obtains, natural individuation ceases to be justif1able and some... | |
 | Istvan Hont, Michael Ignatieff - Business & Economics - 1983 - 388 pages
...Pufendorf, IMW of Nature, 4.4.3. n. 2 and also 4.6.2.nl ; 4.4.9. n. 2. '03 Locke, Two Treatises, 2.5.33: 'Nor was this appropriation of any parcel of Land,...there was still enough, and as good left; and more the world was America': 'the Inhabitants were too few for the Country and want of People and Money... | |
 | Mary Gibson - Law - 1985 - 316 pages
...Elsewhere, Locke says that "enough and as good" means "there was never the less left for others" and that "he that leaves as much as another can make use of does as good as take nothing at all" (sec. 33). These latter remarks suggest a stricter and perhaps more appropriate standard: that no one's... | |
 | Richard Ashcraft - Philosophy - 1986 - 644 pages
...passage immediately following the one cited above, Locke restates the same point in negative terminology: "Nor was this appropriation of any parcel of land, by improving it, any prejudice to any other man."146 The fulfillment of God's intentions not only contributes to the common good, but it does no... | |
 | John Locke - History - 1988 - 482 pages
...that wag his Property, which another had no Title to, nor could without injury take from him. 3 3 . Nor was this appropriation of any parcel of Land,...more than the yet unprovided could use. So that in effeft, there was never the less left for others because of his inclosure for himself. For he that... | |
 | Ruth W. Grant - Political Science - 1991 - 230 pages
...challenged with an argument that territorial rights can be established by hunting on the land. And "he that leaves as much as another can make use of does as good as take nothing at all" (2^33). The life of the settlers resembles that of men in the biblical times of the second stage. The... | |
 | A. John Simmons - Philosophy - 1994 - 402 pages
...what? The answer is: enough and as good for others to use. Appropriation within one's share was not "any prejudice to any other man, since there was still...left, and more than the yet unprovided could use" (II, 33; my emphasis). Both notions of a share are relative to use. One is relative to what the taker... | |
 | Alan Donagan - History - 1994 - 332 pages
...namely, that in the state of nature, appropriating a parcel of land by improving it could not have been "any prejudice to any other Man, since there was still...good left; and more than the yet unprovided could use."19 Even in the state of nature, agreements between human beings to put a value on scarce durable... | |
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