An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
by William Godwin
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Godwin’s Political Justice is the founding text of philosophical anarchism. Written in the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution, it exemplifies the political optimism felt by many writers and intellectuals. Godwin drew on enlightenment ideas and his background in religious dissent for the principles of justice, utility, and the sanctity of individual judgement that drove his powerful critique of all forms of secular and religious authority. He predicts the triumph of justice and equality over injustice, and of mind over matter, and the eventual vanquishing of human frailty and mortality. He also foresees the gradual elimination of practices governing property, punishment, law, and marriage and the displacement of politics by an expanded personal morality resulting from reasoned argument and candid discussion. Political Justice raises deep philosophical questions about the nature of our duty to others that remain central to modern debates on ethics and politics.
This edition reprints the first-edition text of 1793, and examines Godwin’s evolving philosophy in the context of his life and work.
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Political science, Political ethics, Early works to 1800, Political science, early works to 1800, Justice, English Philosophy, Political justice, Morale politique, Science politique, Anarchistes, Property, Philosophy, Godwin, william, 1756-1836, Anarchism, Anarchismus, Politische Philosophie, Political science--early works to 1800, Jc176 .g82 1992, 320/.01/1Places
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An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
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Enquiry concerning political justice, and its influence on modern morals and happiness
1976, Penguin
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Enquiry concerning political justice and its influence on morals and happiness
1969, University of Toronto Press
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- Photographic facsimile of the 3rd ed. corr. / edited with variant readings of the 1st and 2nd eds. and with a critical introd. and notes by F.E.L. Priestley.
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Enquiry concerning political justice, and its influence on morals and happiness.
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Enquiry concerning political justice, and its influence on morals and happiness
1796, Printed by Bioren and Madan
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An enquiry concerning political justice: and its influence on general virtue and happiness.
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"This edition reproduces the first edition text, published in quarto by G.G. J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London, 1793"--Page xxxv.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness is a 1793 book by the philosopher William Godwin, in which the author outlines his political philosophy. It is the first modern work to expound anarchism.
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