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Critical Reflections on Ownership (Paperback)
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Critical Reflections on Ownership (Paperback)
Series: Critical Reflections on Human Rights and the Environment series
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Mary Warnock's Critical Reflections on Ownership is a sustained
meditation on the significance that ownership has for us from one
of our finest philosophical voices. First exploring the
responsibility and love we have for things that are owned, she goes
on to provide a penetrating investigation of the relationship we
have to those things which we do not, indeed cannot, own, in
particular the natural world. Critical Reflections on Ownership is
required reading for anyone who wants to think deeply, and clearly,
about the prospect of a global environmental cataclysm and what we
might do to address it.' - J.E. Penner, author of The Idea of
Property in LawIn this thought-provoking work, Mary Warnock
explores what it is to own things, and the differences in our
attitude to what we own and what we do not. Starting from the
philosophical standpoints of Locke and Hume, the ownership of
gardens is presented as a prime example, exploring both private and
common ownership, historically and autobiographically. The author
concludes that, besides pleasure and pride, ownership brings a
sense of responsibility for what is owned and a fundamental
question is brought to light: can we feel the same responsibility
for what we do not, and never can, own? Applying this question to
the natural world and the planet as a whole, a realistic and
gradualist perspective is offered on confronting global
environmental degradation. Critical Reflections on Ownership
examines the effect of the Romantic Movement on our attitudes to
nature and is a salient commentary on the history of ideas.
Providing an accessible entrance into moral philosophy and its
practical applications, this book is an invaluable source for
students in the fields of politics and philosophy. Academics
interested in conceptions of ownership, and in the interface
between philosophy, morality and politics, will find this deeply
considered insight to be a stimulating read.
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