Milburn, J. orcid.org/0000-0003-0638-8555 (2017) Nonhuman animals as property holders: An exploration of the Lockean labour-mixing account. Environmental Values, 26 (5). pp. 629-648. ISSN 0963-2719
Abstract
Recent proposals in political philosophy concerning nonhuman animals as property-holders - by John Hadley and Steve Cooke - have focused on the interests that nonhuman animals have in access to and use of their territories. The possibility that such rights might be grounded on the basis of a Lockean (that is, labour-mixing) account of property has been rejected. In this paper, I explore four criticisms of Lockean property rights for nonhuman animals - concerning self-ownership, initiative, exertion and the sufficiency of protection offered - concluding that Lockean property rights could be extended to nonhuman animals. I then suggest that Lockean property rights actually offer advantages over interest-based accounts: they more clearly ground property, they are potentially broader, and they are considerably stronger.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 White Horse Press. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Environmental Values. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Animal ethics; animal rights; property; labour; John Locke |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2020 14:19 |
Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2020 14:19 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | White Horse Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3197/096327117x15002190708155 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:157873 |