Thinking about Property

From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution

By: Peter Garnsey

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Hardcover | 13 December 2007

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This book explores ancient 'foundational' texts relating to property and their reception by later thinkers in their various contexts up to the early nineteenth century. The texts include Plato's vision of an ideal polity in the Republic, Jesus' teachings on renunciation and poverty, and Golden Age narratives and other evolutionary accounts of the transition of mankind from primeval communality to regimes of ownership. The issue of the legitimacy of private ownership exercises the minds of the major political thinkers as well as theologians and jurists throughout the ages. The book gives full consideration to the historical development of Rights Theory, with special reference to the right to property. It ends with a comparative study of the Declarations of Rights in the American and French Revolutions and seeks to explain, with reference to contemporary documents, why the French recognised an inalienable, human right to property whereas the Americans did not.

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"This marvellous book combines very substantial and wide-ranging scholarship with great conceptual and analytic rigour to present a sophisticated, entirely original and highly compelling history of conceptions of property in the West from the Greeks to the 19th century.' Raymond Geuss, Professor in Philosophy, University of Cambridge 'Garnsey's meticulous and focused scholarship will fundamentally change our basic thinking about the origins and legitimation of property in the western tradition ... I know of no other work that so accurately traces the genealogy of modern debts to ancient thought on this important subject.' Brent Shaw, Professor of Classics and Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics, Princeton University

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Introduction
PlatoÆs 'communismÆ, AristotleÆs critique and ProclusÆ response
PlatoÆs 'communismÆ: from late antiquity via Islamic Spain to the Renaissance
Renunciation and communality: thinking through the primitive Church
The poverty of Christ: crises of asceticism from the Pelagians to the Franciscans
The state of nature and the origin of private property: Hesiod to William of Ockham
The state of nature and the origin of private property: Grotius to Hegel
Property as a legal right
Property as a human right
Conclusion
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