An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Godwin
- First Published: 1793
- Type of Work: Politics
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics
- Subjects: Justice, Freedom, Politics, Law or legislation, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Political science, Politicians, Government, Democracy, Anarchism or anarchists
Critical Evaluation:
In 1793, William Godwin, the first philosopher of anarchism, published An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. This three-volume work gives evidence of being strongly influenced by the ideas of the French Revolution and argues that the rational being, the human, must be given complete freedom to exercise pure reason. All forms of government, being founded on irrational assumptions, are tyrannical and eventually must be eliminated. Laws have not been produced by wisdom but by greed and fear, so they should be replaced by the products of reasonable...
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