historical exegesis. Then, the fundamental theorem of the property mechanism is proven, which shows that if "Hume's conditions … Lockean responsibility principle — i.e., "Hume implies Locke." As a major application, the results in their contrapositive … form, "Not Locke implies Not Hume," are applied to a market economy based on the employment contract. I show that the …

it maintains more affinities with the liberal tradition represented by J. Locke. While Aquinas links property to the … common good, for Locke property is based on the rights of the individual. A re-reading of the encyclical, in light of its …The social encyclical Rerum Novarum closely links the question of poverty with that of property, and invokes Thomas …

identified labor as the original and just foundation of property. Succinctly, Locke's was a labor theory of property. Now, while … Locke saw private property as legitimate, he proposed that the state of nature within which people interact is part of a … when money is properly conceived, Locke's own moral strictures regarding property are violated, and his theoretical defense …

Hume developed an original and revolutionary theoretical paradigm for explaining the spontaneous emergence of the … classic conventions of justice - stable possession, transference of property by consent, and the obligation to fulfill … promises. In a scenario of scarce external resources, Hume’s central idea is that the development of the rules of justice …