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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
My background in philosophy is slim. (In college, I was a philosophy major for about a day and a half. I took my first course in it and wanted to run screaming from the classroom.)
So bear with me her while I pose a question. Perhaps my initial premise is incorrect. Feel free to point out my mistakes. (Yeah, like you need my permission!) As I understand it, Locke said that the basis of government was the right of private property. Much of the subsequent Enlightenment thought about proper governance flows from the idea that Men should live in a society whose fundamental principle is the protection of private property. The subsequent American and French revolutions were manifestations of the rise of the bourgeois class in claiming their right to have their wealth unmolested by monarchs. My question is this. What would a society look like whose basis was the right of protection of an individual's health?
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
Locke would have counted "health" as an individual property right.
The beginning of the right to property is the right to self-preservation. That right is given up to the state, which preserves your self and your property by proxy. I'm not answering your actual question, mind you. Just clearing up the Lockean position. |
landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
Thanks for the clarification.
However, it seems to me that lumping in the right to health with private property rights leads to immediate contradictions. Do I have the right to pollute or sell products if that will affect someone else's health negatively? May the government tax others in order to insure my health? It matters whether we see health or private property as the priority.
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
As an undergrad, I had to take a philosophy class as part of my general education. I recoiled from the idea of taking a class in which the professor was likely to be so presumptuous as to instruct me how to think, so I settled on a class in Logic. (It had the added advantage that, as a mathematics major, I would probably be able to get an "A" without ever having to open the textbook.)
The results of the class were, to say the least, interesting. They involve Leibniz' claim to fame, and murder. (Literally: murder.) |
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