Enclosing in God’s Name, Accumulating for Mankind: Money, Morality, and Accumulation in John Locke’s Theory of Property

• Main Author: INCE, Onur Ulas
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: John Locke; property; capitalism; economics; liberalism; money; natural law; theology; morality; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1996; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3253/viewcontent/8749172.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

John Locke's theory of property has been the subject of sustained contention between two major perspectives: a socioeconomic perspective, which conceives Locke's thought as an expression of the rising bourgeois sensibility and a defense of the nascent capitalist relations, and a theologica...