Thinking about property : From antiquity to the age of revolution /
Peter Garnsey.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- x, 267 p. ; 23 cm.
- Ideas in context ; 90 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-261) and index.
Introduction; 1. Plato's 'communism', Aristotle's critique and Proclus' response; 2. Plato's 'communism': from late antiquity via Islamic Spain to the Renaissance; 3. Renunciation and communality: thinking through the primitive Church; 4. The poverty of Christ: crises of asceticism from the Pelagians to the Franciscans; 5. The state of nature and the origin of private property: Hesiod to William of Ockham; 6. The state of nature and the origin of private property: Grotius to Hegel; 7. Property as a legal right; 8. Property as a human right; Conclusion.
Right of property--History. Property--Philosophy--History. Property--Religious aspects. Personal property. Personal property--Moral and ethical aspects.