THINKING ABOUT PROPERTY

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 Platos 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 regime s of ownership. The issue of the legitimacy of private ownership exercises the minds of the major political thinkers as well as theo logians and ...[Read more]