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Ancient philosophy is an important heritage of human thinking. The importance of privare property was an important question that was connected by the great thinkers like Aristotle to the progress of civilization. I put some entry points into the important ancient philosophy schools for the interested reader in this article. Salvete!
Ancient philosophers considered the relationship between property and justice in various ways. Here are some ideas discussed in ancient philosophy.
  • Some ancient philosophers, such as Aristotle, emphasized the importance of private property and argued that property is a prerequisite for freedom and political equality.
  • Other ancient philosophers, such as Plato, were skeptical of private property and argued that it can lead people to become greedy and selfish.
  • The Stoics emphasized the importance of reason and argued that property should serve to promote the good of the community.
-The ancient philosophers also discussed the question of what is just and how property should be distributed equitably.
Different approaches were discussed, such as the idea that everyone has the right to property, or the idea that property should serve to promote the well-being of the community.Overall, ancient philosophers considered the connection between property and justice in different ways and had different opinions about how property should be organized in society.
What did they believe property WAS? Could living things be property? humans? ideas?
I wonder the extent to which we contort our philosophy to neatly wrap around our ways of living.
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The ethical abyss always has been that slaves where treated as objects that had the same legal status as other ''things''. But this changed especially during the late roman republic when first vital signs of antique ''humanism'' forced society to guarantee to slaves the right of having property too. Legal regulation of treating slaves changed dramatically and there where more and more families born out of that status that gained citizenship.
To the second part of Your question if I get it right: we lost the path. I do not see any deeper impact of contemporary philosophy or reflection nowadays to be honest.
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