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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. "
Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ... - Page 145
by Herbert Spencer - 1868 - 523 pages
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Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines

Mark Poster - Computers - 2006 - 320 pages
...one has to oneself. In the first instance, property is ownership of the self by the self. He writes: "Every man has a property in his own person; this nobody has any right to but himself" (Locke 1937,19). Acts of labor expand the domain of property to the objects...
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A General Theory of Trade and Competition: Trade Liberalisation and ...

Shanker Singham - Business & Economics - 2007 - 551 pages
...of moral and international law. John Locke (in his Second Treatise of Government (1689) noted that: [e]very man has a property in his own person. This...right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the works of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the realm of nature...
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Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity

Christopher Peterson - 2007 - 201 pages
...his Second Treatise of Government: "Every man has a Property in his own Person, This no Body has any right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his."7 Yet, this doctrine of possessive individualism must come to terms with the paradox that "freedom,"...
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Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil

James Holston - History - 2008 - 424 pages
...oneself. In Locke's formulation, "every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his."1 From this natural property in life and labor, Locke derives a natural right to appropriate land...
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Justice: A Reader

Michael J. Sandel - Law - 2007 - 428 pages
...before it can do any good for the support of his life. 27. 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...
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Re-Creating Medicine: Ethical Issues at the Frontiers of Medicine

Gregory E. Pence - Medical - 2007 - 224 pages
...for Locke? His famous solution is worth quoting in full: 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...
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The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches, and Documents ...

Micheline Ishay - Law - 2007 - 590 pages
...it can do him any good for the support of his life. 27. 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 labor of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly...
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Land Use Controls and Property Rights: A Guide for Real Estate Professionals

John P. Lewis - Business & Economics - 2007 - 296 pages
...liberty, and property. Notions of the common good and public welfare cannot "trump" natural rights. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to but himself. The labor of his body, and the works of his hands, we may say, are his property. Whatsoever then he removes...
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Ordered Anarchy: Jasay and His Surroundings

Hardy Bouillon, Hartmut Kliemt - Philosophy - 2007 - 234 pages
...of his Life.77 The key phrase is "a part of him," for "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."78 Pace Rawls, our fundamental rights are to our bodies, and...
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Der Leib in der japanischen Bioethik: mit einer Diskussion der Leibtheorie ...

Christian Steineck - Bioethics - 2007 - 312 pages
...auf folgende Stelle im zweiten Treatise on Government: 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, and the work of his hands, we may say,...
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