Plato's Conception Of Ownership

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in my point of view the conception of ownership is well explained by all three philosophers. Plato argues that owning objects is detrimental to a person’s character, meaning that what kind of person are you. I completely agree with this statement because in this era people likely to be acquisitive because it tag them as character who may perhaps be better off than someone else. People likely to think especially of themselves when they have acquisitive item to support them. For example having the new

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