:Self-ownership has fallen out of favor as a core moral and political concept. I argue that this is because the most popular conception of self-ownership, what I call the property conception, is typically linked to a libertarian (of the left or right) political program. Seeing self-ownership and libertarianism as being necessarily linked leads those who are not inclined toward libertarianism to reject the idea of self-ownership altogether. This, I argue, is a mistake. Self-ownership is a crucial moral and political concept that can earn its keep if we understand it not as type of property right in the self, but rather as a set of territorial rights one has over one’s body. This territorial conception of self-ownership, which I call the sovereignty conception of self-ownership, avoids the traditional arguments raised against the property conception of self-ownership and has other benefits besides. Accepting this conception of self-ownership, I argue, has considerable moral and political benefits without taking on the costs associated with other forms of self-ownership.

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作为个人主权的自我所有权

: 作为一种核心的道德和政治概念，自我所有权已经失宠。我认为这是因为最流行的自我所有权概念，我称之为财产概念，通常与（左或右）自由主义政治纲领相关联。将自我所有权和自由主义视为必然联系在一起，导致那些不倾向于自由主义的人完全拒绝自​​我所有权的想法。我认为这是一个错误。自我所有权是一个至关重要的道德和政治概念，如果我们不将其理解为自我财产权的类型，而是将其理解为人们对自己身体拥有的一套领土权利，那么它就可以获得它的保留。这种自我所有权的领土概念，我称之为自我所有权的主权概念，避免了反对自我所有权的财产概念的传统论据，此外还有其他好处。我认为，接受这种自我所有权的概念具有相当大的道德和政治利益，而无需承担与其他形式的自我所有权相关的成本。