In this book, Gopal Sreenivasan provides a comprehensive
interpretation of Locke's theory of property, and offers a critical
assessment of that theory. Locke argued that the appropriation of
things as private property does not violate the rights of others,
provided that everyone still has access to the materials needed to
produce their subsistence. Given that, the actual appropriation of
particular things is legitimated by one's labor. Holding Locke's
theory to the logic of its own argument, Sreenivasan examines the
extent to which it is really serviceable as a defense of private
property. He contends that a purified version of this theory - one
that adheres consistently to the logic of Locke's argument while
excluding considerations extraneous to it - does in fact legitimate
a form of private property. This purified theory is defensible in
contemporary, secular terms, since nothing to which Locke gives an
ineliminable theological foundation belongs to the logical
structure of his argument. The resulting regime of private property
is both substantially egalitarian and significantly different from
the traditional liberal institution of private property.
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