CORRADO DEL BŅ

Proprietą di sč e giustizia distributiva: un conflitto necessario?

N. 199

Summary - The idea of self-ownership is often used by libertarians to deny that the State is morally authorized to modify free market transactions coercively by means of taxation and, more generally, redistributive policies. From this perspective, if I am the owner of myself, I also own, according to Lockean teaching, the outcomes of my labour. In this way there is no room for distributive justice without violating self-ownership. In this essay the author argues against this idea. His argument is three-fold: firstly, the author demonstrates some problems with the Lockean theory of labour-mixing. Secondly, he criticizes the Lockean theory as it has been recently reformulated by Robert Nozick. Finally, he explains why he supposed conflict between self-ownership and distributive justice can be accommodated and why it is possible and necessary to continue to elaborate theories of justice compatible with the idea of self-ownership.