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Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution

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Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution - Garnsey, Peter
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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 ...

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Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution 2007, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521700238

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Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution 2007, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521876773

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