CONTENTS Preface Contributors Part I: Historical Trends The Concept of Property and Its Contemporary Significance . MINOGUE . EE Concept of Property Predicted from Its Past CHARLES DONAHUE, JR. The Disintegration of Property THOMAS C. GREY vii v1il Part II: 87 Some Philosophers on Property Property and Possession: Two Replies to Locke— Hume and Hegel CHRISTOPHER J. BERRY Property as Artifice: Hume and Blackstone FREDERICK G. WHELAN Co I's and Property, Freedom and Individuality In Hegelsa Marx’s Political Thought PETER G. STILLMAN J 6 180 Part 111. The Right to Property Thoughts on the Right to Private Property J. ROLAND PENNOCK The Moral Basis of Property Rights LAWRENCE C. BECKER fied On the Alleged Impossibility of an Unqualifie Disjustificatory Theory of Property Rights RICHARD E. FLATHMAN Slavery, Socialism, and Private Pronerty BILLEL STEINER 169 171 4 187 a 9 291 10 1.4