Locke, as well as justifying a natural right to private property, also stresses that human beings do have a natural right to charity. My purpose in this paper is to defend the hypothesis that the right of charity postulated by Locke can be explained in terms of the presence of Christian-theological premises in his theory of property. In a monetized economy in which men are unequally industrious, the right to charity guaranties the fulfillment of the divine commandment of human preservation.
Keywords:
Locke, charity, private property, right to the means of preservation, Christianity, Christian theology
Udi, J. (2015). The right to charity: repercussions of christian theology on John Locke’s theory of property. Revista De Filosofía, 70, 149–160. Retrieved from https://revistafilosofia.uchile.cl/index.php/RDF/article/view/35936
