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The present work seeks to cast a critical eye on the nature of the right to property from its threshold, demonstrating how violent nature is intrinsic to the alienation of the public good by an individual. By means of dialectical methodology and bibliographic research, we seek to outline contradictory views on property, revealing – by means of a summary of the thoughts of Locke and Rousseau – the inexistence of this right in a state of nature, with it instead derived from civil society. The research then moves on to consider the way in which Hegel's dialectic of the master and the slave is carried out, tracing the sequence of movements by which a conscience can arrive at its own recognition through the symbolic death of the other. Finally, we show how private property presents itself in relationships of domination and in the creation of a system of norms that legitimize violence, also offering a criticism of the way in which Hegel proposes the reflexive liberation of the slave.