Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness. Volume 1

by William Godwin

41 chapters13h 48mEnglish1842

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It was Godwin, in his Enquiry concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), who was the first to formulate the political and economical conceptions of anarchism, even though he did not give that name to the ideas developed in his remarkable work. Laws, he wrote, are not a product of the wisdom of our ancestors: they are the product of their passions, their timidity, their jealousies and their ambition. The remedy they offer is worse than the evils they pretend to cure. - Summary by Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921)

Chapters (41)

1PREFACE

579

2PREFACE TO THE THE SECOND EDITION

473

3SUMMARY OF PRINCIPLES - ESTABLISHED AND REASONED UPON IN THE FOLLOWING WORK

414

4BOOK I. CHAP. I.

580

5BOOK I. CHAP. II.

788

6BOOK I. CHAP. III.

999

7BOOK I. CHAP. IV.

2795

8BOOK I. CHAP. V. Part 1.

2577

9BOOK I. CHAP. V. Part 2.

2287

10BOOK I. CHAP. VI.

991

11BOOK I. CHAP. VII.

487

12BOOK I. CHAP. VIII.

1124

13BOOK II. CHAP. I.

488

14BOOK II. CHAP. II.

1463

15BOOK II. CHAP. II. Appendix, No. 1

259

16BOOK II. CHAP. II. Appendix, No. 2

383

17BOOK II. CHAP. III.

510

18BOOK II. CHAP. IV.

1042

19BOOK II. CHAP. V.

1207

20BOOK II. CHAP. VI.

1231

21BOOK III. CHAP. I.

440

22BOOK III. CHAP. II.

573

23BOOK III. CHAP. III.

2064

24BOOK III. CHAP. IV.

714

25BOOK III. CHAP. V.

224

26BOOK III. CHAP. VI.

1722

27BOOK III. CHAP. VII.

714

28BOOK IV. CHAP. I.

1829

29BOOK IV. CHAP. II.

2331

30BOOK IV. CHAP. III.

1804

31BOOK IV. CHAP. IV.

399

32BOOK IV. CHAP. V.

1112

33BOOK IV. CHAP. V. Appendix

1221

34BOOK VI. CHAP. VI.

1515

35BOOK IV. CHAP. VI. Appendix, No. 1

1644

36BOOK IV. CHAP. VI. Appendix, No. 2

408

37BOOK IV. CHAP. VII.

2418

38BOOK IV. CHAP. VIII.

1499

39BOOK IV. CHAP. IX.

2153

40BOOK IV. CHAP. X.

1641

41BOOK IV. CHAP. XI.

2600

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness. Volume 1

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