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Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

Overview

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness is a 1793 book by the philosopher William Godwin, in which the author outlines his political philosophy. It is the first modern work to elucidate anarchism.

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Philosophers who discussed Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

• William Godwin
• The Age of Reason

Related ideas

• Edmund Burke
• French Revolution
• Romantic poetry
• Anarchism
• Government
• William Godwin
• Reflections on the Revolution in France
• Jürgen Habermas
• Feeling
• Justice
• Impartiality
• Pleasure
• Happiness
• Monarchy
• Classical radicalism
• Political philosophy
• Property
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Thomas Paine
• Common good
• Thomas Robert Malthus
• Utilitarianism
• War
• Rights of Man

Place in the tradition

Part of Anarchism.

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