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

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

by William Godwin

English· 13:48:22· 41 chapters
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)

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    PREFACE

    09:39
  2. Chapter 2

    PREFACE TO THE THE SECOND EDITION

    07:53
  3. Chapter 3

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

    06:54
  4. Chapter 4

    BOOK I. CHAP. I.

    09:40
  5. Chapter 5

    BOOK I. CHAP. II.

    13:08
  6. Chapter 6

    BOOK I. CHAP. III.

    16:39
  7. Chapter 7

    BOOK I. CHAP. IV.

    46:35
  8. Chapter 8

    BOOK I. CHAP. V. Part 1.

    42:57
  9. Chapter 9

    BOOK I. CHAP. V. Part 2.

    38:07
  10. Chapter 10

    BOOK I. CHAP. VI.

    16:31
  11. Chapter 11

    BOOK I. CHAP. VII.

    08:07
  12. Chapter 12

    BOOK I. CHAP. VIII.

    18:44
  13. Chapter 13

    BOOK II. CHAP. I.

    08:08
  14. Chapter 14

    BOOK II. CHAP. II.

    24:23
  15. Chapter 15

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

    04:19
  16. Chapter 16

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

    06:23
  17. Chapter 17

    BOOK II. CHAP. III.

    08:30
  18. Chapter 18

    BOOK II. CHAP. IV.

    17:22
  19. Chapter 19

    BOOK II. CHAP. V.

    20:07
  20. Chapter 20

    BOOK II. CHAP. VI.

    20:31
  21. Chapter 21

    BOOK III. CHAP. I.

    07:20
  22. Chapter 22

    BOOK III. CHAP. II.

    09:33
  23. Chapter 23

    BOOK III. CHAP. III.

    34:24
  24. Chapter 24

    BOOK III. CHAP. IV.

    11:54
  25. Chapter 25

    BOOK III. CHAP. V.

    03:44
  26. Chapter 26

    BOOK III. CHAP. VI.

    28:42
  27. Chapter 27

    BOOK III. CHAP. VII.

    11:54
  28. Chapter 28

    BOOK IV. CHAP. I.

    30:29
  29. Chapter 29

    BOOK IV. CHAP. II.

    38:51
  30. Chapter 30

    BOOK IV. CHAP. III.

    30:04
  31. Chapter 31

    BOOK IV. CHAP. IV.

    06:39
  32. Chapter 32

    BOOK IV. CHAP. V.

    18:32
  33. Chapter 33

    BOOK IV. CHAP. V. Appendix

    20:21
  34. Chapter 34

    BOOK VI. CHAP. VI.

    25:15
  35. Chapter 35

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

    27:24
  36. Chapter 36

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

    06:48
  37. Chapter 37

    BOOK IV. CHAP. VII.

    40:18
  38. Chapter 38

    BOOK IV. CHAP. VIII.

    24:59
  39. Chapter 39

    BOOK IV. CHAP. IX.

    35:53
  40. Chapter 40

    BOOK IV. CHAP. X.

    27:21
  41. Chapter 41

    BOOK IV. CHAP. XI.

    43:20