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Jul 2, 2024 · In the first edition of Political Justice Godwin went so far as to hypothesise that children once born will be the responsibility of the community and not of their biological parents: ‘It cannot be definitely affirmed whether it be known in such a society who is the father of each individual child.
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Jul 2, 2024 · Life in society is total immersion in political justice: ‘Nearly all our impressions of right and wrong flow from our intercourse with each other’ (PJ 386). Public opinion is ‘the sense of the people at large’, ‘the sense of the whole’ (PJ 388), the ‘sympathy of the public’ (PJ 389).
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6 days ago · The Age of Reason belongs to the later, more radical, stage of the British political reform movement, which openly embraced republicanism and sometimes atheism and was exemplified by such texts as William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793). (However, Paine and other deists were not atheists.)
Jul 2, 2024 · Godwin in Of Population took care to reassure his readers they would not be seduced into sin: ‘My bitterest enemy will hardly be able to find in this volume the author of the Essay concerning Political Justice’ (OP 8). Godwin says that republicanism and redistribution are ‘foreign to the subject which is now before me’ (OP 8).
Jul 8, 2024 · Father to MS who was a radical political philosopher + novelist. Most famous for two books: An Enquiry concerning political justice- attacking political institutions + The adventures of Caleb Williams- attacks aristocratic privilege
