Description: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Paperback by Godwin, William; Philp, Mark (EDT), ISBN 0199642621, ISBN-13 9780199642625, Brand New, Free shipping in the US To a rational being there can be but one rule of conduct, justice, and one mode of ascertaining that rule, the exercise of his understanding.
Godwins 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 Godwins evolving philosophy in the context of his life and work.
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Book Title: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
Number of Pages: 560 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2013
Topic: History & Theory, General
Item Height: 1 in
Genre: Law, Political Science
Item Weight: 13.4 Oz
Author: William Godwin
Item Length: 7.7 in
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Item Width: 5.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
