TY - BOOK ID - 5424939 TI - Thinking about property PY - 2007 VL - 90 SN - 9780521700238 9780521876773 052170023X 052187677X 9780511482786 9780511379017 0511379013 9780511376313 0511376316 0511482787 110718276X 128124354X 9786611243548 0511378122 0511377258 0511374771 PB - Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Right of property KW - Property KW - Personal property. KW - Personal property KW - Droit de propriété KW - Propriété KW - Propriété mobilière KW - History. KW - Philosophy KW - Religious aspects. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Histoire KW - Philosophie KW - Aspect religieux KW - Aspect moral KW - History KW - Religious aspects KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Droit de propriété KW - Propriété KW - Propriété mobilière KW - Ownership of property KW - Private ownership of property, Right of KW - Private property, Right of KW - Property, Right of KW - Property rights KW - Right of private ownership of property KW - Right of private property KW - Right to property KW - Chattels KW - Choses KW - Personalty KW - Property, Personal KW - Philosophy&delete& KW - Law and legislation KW - Moral and religious aspects KW - Civil rights KW - Economics KW - Possession (Law) KW - Things (Law) KW - Wealth KW - Primitive property KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Right of property - History KW - Property - Philosophy - History KW - Property - Religious aspects KW - Personal property - Moral and ethical aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5424939 AB - 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. ER -