Kant goes fishing: Kant and the right to property in environmental resources

Breitenbach, Angela (2005) Kant goes fishing: Kant and the right to property in environmental resources. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 36 (3). pp. 488-512.

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Abstract

We can observe a connection between some serious environmental problems caused by the overexploitation of environmental resources and the particular conceptions of property rights that are claimed to hold with regard to these resources. In this paper, I investigate whether Kant’s conception of property rights might constitute a basis for justifying property regimes that would overcome some of these environmental problems. Kant’s argument for the right to property, put forward in his Doctrine of right, is complex. In Section 2, I attempt an interpretation. Section 3 works out the defining characteristics of the conception of property rights that Kant’s argument establishes and investigates their implications for determining property regimes in environmental resources. Kant proposes a minimalist notion of the right to property as a triadic relation between persons with regard to an object, justified only on the condition that it is universalizable in the given circumstances. I argue that this notion offers a promising account for determining property relations with regard to environmental resources. By way of illustration, in Section 4, I focus on an example of Kantian property rights in one type of environmental resource: the marine fisheries.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Philosophy (former - to 2014)
Depositing User:	Philip Robinson
Date Deposited:	11 Mar 2011 09:33
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2023 00:39
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/25948
DOI:	10.1016/j.shpsc.2005.07.002

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