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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. [1] It is the first modern work to elucidate anarchism .
Godwin acknowledged the influence of Burke for this portion. The rest of the book is Godwin's positive vision of how an anarchist (or minarchist) society might work. Political Justice was extremely influential in its time: after the writings of Burke and Paine, Godwin's was the most popular written response to the French Revolution. Godwin's ...
Intended as a popularisation of the ideas presented in his 1793 treatise Political Justice Godwin uses Caleb Williams to show how legal and other institutions can and do destroy individuals, even when the people the justice system touches are innocent of any crime. This reality, in Godwin's mind, was therefore a description of "things as they are".
The Philosophical Anarchism of William Godwin is a 1977 book by John P. Clark on the philosophy of the moral philosopher and political theorist William Godwin.
This aspect of Godwin's philosophy, minus the utilitarianism, was developed into a more extreme form later by Stirner. [46] Godwin took individualism to the radical extent of opposing individuals performing together in orchestras, writing in Political Justice that "everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil". [44]
William Godwin (1756–1836) – the first modern proponent of anarchism, whose political views are outlined in his book Political Justice; Karl Hess (1923–1993) – libertarian socialist and tax resistor; Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) – author of works on anti-capitalism, individualist anarchism and libertarian socialism
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and then America’s U.N. ambassador, Arthur Goldberg called the charges and the trial "an outrageous attempt to give the form of legality to the suppression of ...
Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule), short for Godwin's law of Nazi analogies, [1] is an Internet adage asserting: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."