Form: Quote Commentary

By Bill Joslin

—“The series of values: Life, Liberty, and Property reflect a series of steady states in time:

1) Life: Myself in the moment (self-ownership)

2) Liberty: My life in the future

3) Property: The results of my life in the past

Using Properarianism’s Sovereignty, Testimonialism, and Propertarianism, we now have an operational triad which less poetically and more existentially accounts for Locke’s Life, Liberty, and Property.

1) Life – Sovereignty (far more robust term, which can be demonstrated versus proclaimed via appeals to morality

2) Liberty – Testimonialism (effective future action in applying our efforts and deciding exchanges toward productive ends)

3) Property – Propertarianism: Property in toto (expanded and demonstrated definition of property)

We’ve improved upon Life, Liberty, and Property”—

Bill – I have an intuition that we could express this in relation to OTHERS (as a law of cooperation) rather than of self (as an appeal for liberty from the state, as Locke was doing)

What do soverignty, testimony, and property cause us to grant for others in exchange for what? Then how do we tie that back to myself, and ourselves, my life and our lives, my property and our property?