...virtue of being the kind of creatures that we are. As he puts it: 'Though the earth, and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This no body has any right to but himself (II, 27). Further, he says, the labour or work of our bodies is...

...one has to oneself. In the first instance, property is ownership of the self by the self. He writes: "Every man has a property in his own person; this nobody has any right to but himself" (Locke 1937,19). Acts of labor expand the domain of property to the objects worked on, such as land....

...the Pacific Northwest independent music scene Kathleen McConnell Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures, be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person: this no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say,...

...property in his own person." But Locke follows that sentence with another which ought to give us pause: "The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his." Locke says we own our labour, not our bodies. And we own our labour because it is the product of our...

...theory in terms of possessive individualism, arguing that "every man has a property in his own person. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say are properly his."59 Although the Lockean theory has influenced modern patent law, it does not explain the phenomenon...

...make property its own, to increase its natural share: "Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say,...

...Gough. Oxford: Blackwell 1966, 14 (chap. 5): „Of Property": „Though the earth, and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in bis own person; this nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of bis body and the work of bis...

...Bedürfnisbefriedigung der Menschheit hervorzubringen, zur Seite stellt. »Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in bis own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of...

...property for Locke? His famous solution is worth quoting in full: Though the earth, and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has...hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that Nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his Labour with...

...persons and bodies, and between the labour of our bodies and our bodies themselves, when he says that 'Every man has a property in his own person; this...and the work of his hands we may say are properly his.'35 We have a title to that with which we have 'mixed our labour' because our labour is the expression...