
Social justice in the ancient world
Title:
Social justice in the ancient world
Author:
Irani, K. D.
ISBN:
9780313031113
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 224 p.)
Series:
Contributions in political science, no. 354. Global perspectives in history and politics
Contributions in political science ; no. 354.
Contributions in political science. Global perspectives in history and politics.
General Note:
"This volume resulted from a Conference on Social Justice in the Ancient World held at the City College of the City University of New York on March 10, 11, and 13. All the papers read at the conference are published here, with the exceptions ..."--Pref.
Contents:
The idea of social justice in the ancient world / Social justice and the subsistence economy : from Aristotle to seventeenth-century economics / The origins of a concept of social justice / KHREMATA : acquisition and possession in archaic Greece / Images of justice in early Greek poetry / Justice and the metaphor of medicine in early Greek thought / Social justice in ancient Iran / The ideological basis for social justice/responsibility in ancient Egypt / Social justice in early Islamic society / The idea of social justice in ancient China / Social justice in the ancient Near East / Social reform in ancient Mesopotamia / Prophets and markets revisited / Demands for land redistribution and debt reduction in the Roman Republic
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Electronic Access:
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