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" Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. "
Systems of Land Tenure in Various Countries: A Series of Essays Published ... - Page 95
by Cobden Club (London, England) - 1870 - 431 pages
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Does the World Exist?: Plurisignificant Ciphering of Reality

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - Philosophy - 2004 - 934 pages
..."pastistic" I mean a one-sided explanation in lerms of the past; it is (he "opposite" of "futuristic." ! "Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body,...
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A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy

James Macdonald - Business & Economics - 2003 - 590 pages
...one's person, the first and fundamental form of property that had existed since the Garden of Eden. "Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men [in a state of nature], yet every man has property in his own person. . . ,"58 If the unfree lost ownership...
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On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion

Samuel Fleischacker - Philosophy - 2009 - 352 pages
...included a passage that became one of Locke's best-known contributions to moral and political philosophy: Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person; this nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body...
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Owning the Genome: A Moral Analysis of DNA Patenting

David B. Resnik - Science - 2012 - 251 pages
...Locke, the founder of libertarian political philosophy, held that our bodies are our own property: Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has property in his own person: this no body has right to but himself. The labour of his body and the...
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The Biblical Politics of John Locke, Volume 30

Kim Ian Parker, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 217 pages
...their labour.22 In so doing they could claim exclusive rights to that property. Locke puts it this way: Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body,...
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Natural Rights Liberalism from Locke to Nozick: Volume 22, Part 1

Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Law - 2005 - 428 pages
...are very well known. It is sufficient to cite the locus classicus of Locke on justice in acquisition: Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body,...
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John Locke and the Origins of Private Property: Philosophical Explorations ...

Matthew H. Kramer - Business & Economics - 2004 - 368 pages
...introduced such a ground in the most important and celebrated paragraph of his disquisition on property: Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body,...
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The Creation of American Common Law, 1850–1880: Technology, Politics, and ...

Howard Schweber - Political Science - 2004 - 314 pages
...system of technical practices marked by strict formal requirements, legal fictions, and an array of 1 "Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a 'property' in his own 'person'" (Locke, 1690: 130). overlapping, inconsistent rules that made...
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The Library of Original Sources: Volume VI (Advance in Knowledge 1650-1800)

Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 466 pages
...another can no longer have any right to it, before it can do him any good for the support of life. Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body,...
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The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Worlds ...

Philosophy - 212 pages
...independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. Governmcnt has no other end than the preservation of property. A nding body that offends against the...
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