ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the nature of the Lockean provisos conception of property in general. It focuses on the meaning of these provisos and the practical implications arising from different interpretations of them with respect to the functioning of the institution of private ownership. The chapter analyses the meaning of the Lockean with especial regard to the issue of privatisation of nature in some interpretations of John Locke. The restrictions regard both those parcels of land and resources that exist as unowned in the state of nature and those already appropriated into private ownership – they provide criteria for morally assessing the measures humans take toward the natural world. The right of property allows humans to use the natural plenty they own within certain natural and positive limits for the purposes of their subsistence and their convenience. A theory of human good has to be established and to do this, in a theoretical context which mainly relies on subjectivism.
