The Logic And Criticism To Lock's Property Right Theroy

Property right is the stable foundation of the Locke's political philosophy. Locke regarded brightly the property right as the primary content of individual rights firstly.The formation of modern individualism and establishment of right conception, established the essential thought premise for Locke's property right theory. The individualism conception was given systematic expression in the modern age through conception of nature condition, nature law and social contract theory, which germinated in the ancient Greece city-state age, pushed by Christianism's duality power conception in Middle ages, the discovery of humanity in the Revival of Learning, the apparent of individual spirit and value in the Reformation.Contemplating and animadverting the old theorists is the jumping-off point of Locke's political philosophy. Locke raised his special property right theory through analysis to Descartes, criticism of Robert Filmer, consider to Hobbes. Locke argued that human hold the nature rights in nature condition by nature law, property right, liberty right, being right contact tightly and interdependency. The property came from labor in sacrosanctity.Locke argued that protection of property right is the most important and uppermost purpose to government when people constitute the state came from nature condition because of property sacrosanctity. And also the agency of social contract endowed the tool role to state. State only play the negative role. Therefore restricting public power and building limited government is the essential method of protecting property right.For the purpose of protecting individual rights and restricting public power, Locke raised the modern separation powers theory, lawmaking right, diplomatism right and execute right separate, lawmaking right restraints execute right. Locke also raised the idea of systematic rule of law, regarded the ideas of rule by law, restricting government powers and opposing government disaggregation as the institution design element to property right protection.Marx given abundant affirmation and positive appraise to Locke's property right theory, but also criticized the halfway of this theory, he animadverted deeply on Locke's theory of validity origin of property right, principle of labor establishment, labor value theory and property relation.