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 
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Part II: 
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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 
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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 
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