Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13 978-0-511-37725-9
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In this book Professor Garnsey explores ancient βfoundationalβ texts relating to property and their reception by later thinkers in their various contexts up to the early nineteenth century. The texts include Platoβs vision of an ideal polity in the Republic, Jesusβ
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. Among those whose ideas are woven into the discussion are Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Jesus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Bartolus, William of Ockham, Plethon of Mistra, Grotius, Pufendorf, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel and Proudhon. The book gives full consideration to the historical development of Rights Theory, with special reference to the right to property. It challenges the dominant
historical paradigm that the ancient world made little or no contribution to Rights Theory. The book 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 recognized an inalienable, human right to property whereas the Americans did not.