1. William Godwin Article on the life and work of the founder of philosophical anarchism. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, Category Society Philosophy Philosophers Godwin, William......William Godwin. William Godwin (17561836) was the founder of philosophicalanarchism. Roussin, Henri (1913) William Godwin (Paris Plon-Nourrit). http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/godwin/

version history HOW TO CITE THIS ENTRY Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A B C D ... Z content revised JAN William Godwin William Godwin (1756-1836) was the founder of philosophical anarchism. In his An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) he argued that government is a corrupting force in society, perpetuating dependence and ignorance, but that it will be rendered increasingly unnecessary and powerless by the gradual spread of knowledge. Politics will be displaced by an enlarged personal morality as truth conquers error and mind subordinates matter. In this development the rigorous exercise of private judgment, and its candid expression in public discussion, plays a central role, motivating his rejection of a wide range of co- operative and rule-governed practices which he regards as tending to mental enslavement, such as law, private property, marriage and concerts. Epitomising the optimism of events in France at the time he began writing, Godwin looked forward to a period in which the dominance of mind over matter would be so complete that mental perfectibility would take a physical form, allowing us to control illness and ageing and become immortal. and the chambermaid turns out to be my mother. Godwin's conclusion that we must save the former relies on consequentialist grounds. However, since his account of the content of utility is inseparable from the development of truth and wisdom, and since we can best promote this through the full and free exercise of private judgment and public discussion, the resulting position looks more like a form of perfectionism than utilitarianism.

2. William Godwin William Godwin Seite aus einem deutschsprachigen OnlinePhilosophenlexikon. William Godwin (1756 - 1836). William Godwin ist ein Begründer und Wegbereiter des Anarchismus. http://www.philosophenlexikon.de/godwin.htm

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3. William Godwin - University Of Maryland William Godwin. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/ReadingRoom/Nonfiction/Godwin

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4. Godwin William From FOLDOC godwin william. biography, history of philosophy English social reformer(17561836) and husband of Mary Wollstonecraft. Godwin's http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?Godwin William

5. GODWIN William Genre. godwin william Titre 1. Caleb Williams; or, Things as they are. Genre. http://www.shall.univ-metz.fr/UFR/centre/cet/trad/godwin.htm

GODWIN William Titre 1 Italian Letters; or, The History of the Count de Saint-Julien Genre roman HF origine AH Date origine Titre 2 Traducteur n. m. Traducteur 2 Traduction S 18 Traduction 2 HF traduction Editeur Maradan Editeur 2 Lieu Lieu 2 Paris Collation in-12; p. 129-152 Localisation BN/Y2-11697-11698 Remarque GODWIN William Titre 1 Caleb Williams; or, Things as they are Genre roman HF origine AH Date origine Titre 2 Les Aventures de Caleb Williams Traducteur BAUDY Nicolas Traducteur 2 Traduction Traduction 2 adaptation HF traduction TH Editeur Bordas Editeur 2 Lieu Paris Lieu 2 Collation 18,5 cm; p. 290 Localisation DLC Remarque GODWIN William Titre 1 Caleb Williams; or, Things as they are Genre roman HF origine AH Date origine Titre 2 Les Choses comme elles sont, ou les aventures de Caleb Williams Traducteur DES GENS DE LA CAMPAGNE Traducteur 2 Traduction Traduction 2 HF traduction TPH Editeur Dufart Editeur 2 Lieu Paris Lieu 2 Collation 4 tomes en 2 volumes; in-18; planches Localisation MB Remarque GODWIN William Titre 1 Caleb Williams; or, Things as they are Genre roman HF origine AH Date origine Titre 2 Caleb Williams, ou les Choses comme elles sont

6. William Godwin William Godwin. (17561836). Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/godwin/

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8. CIRA - Lausanne Auteurs classiques godwin william. GODWIN, William, The Adventures of Caleb Williams,or things as they are / William Godwin; éd. Herbert Van Thal; intro. http://www.anarca-bolo.ch/cira/liste/classici/godwin.htm

Auteurs classiques: GODWIN William Auteurs Titre Adresse bibliographique Cote Af 0774 GODWIN, William London: Cassell, 1966 Aa 0132 GODWIN, William Les Aventures de Caleb Williams / William Godwin ; trad. Nicolas Baudy Paris: Bordas, 1945 Af 0403 GODWIN, William Bd 0038 GODWIN, William L'Eutanasia dello stato / William Godwin; a cura di Peter Marshall; traduzione di Pietro Adamo Ai 0712 GODWIN, William RODWAY, A.E. Godwin and the age of transition / edited by A.E. Rodway; Foreword by Vivian de Sola Pinto London : George G. Harrap, 1952 Aa 0029 GODWIN, William Buenos Aires : Americalee, 1945 Be 050 GODWIN, William Ac GODWIN, William Reflections on Political Justice / selections from William Godwin by S. Carlyle Potter London : C. W. Daniel, (s.d.) Broch a 01262 liste des ouvrages

9. Politics Full Index God and the State Croce Benedetto Historical Materialism and the Economics ofKarl Marx godwin william - A defence of the Rockingham Party godwin william http://www.ebooks4free.net/Politics.htm

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10. William Godwin William Godwin, 17561836. Major Works of William Godwin A Defense of the RockinghamParty, 1783. Imogen Pastoral romance from the Ancient British, 1784. http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/wgodwin.htm

William Godwin, 1756-1836. Anarchistic/Utopian political and social philosopher - husband of early feminist author Mary Wollestonecraft and father of Mary Shelley (writer of "Frankenstein" and wife of romantic poet Percy Byssche Shelley). A profound optimist concerning human nature, he nonetheless recognized the exploitative nature of capitalism and proposed a utopian restructuring of society whereby those who earn more than their basic needs would distribute the surplus to the needy. In his famous 1793 plea for anarchy, Godwin posited that the pursuit of happiness is the only object of personal and social ethics. In an early utilitarian leap, Godwin actually went on to argue that "Justice" requires the maximization of aggregate pleasure. His optimistic prognostics on the ultimate "perfectibility" of mankind led Malthus to respond with his dismal essay on population. Major Works of William Godwin A Defense of the Rockingham Party Imogen: Pastoral romance from the Ancient British Instructions to a Statesman An Inquiry Concerning Political Justice Copy (1) Copy (2) Things as They Are; or the adventures of Caleb Williams

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12. William Godwin William Godwin. William Godwin, 17561836, political philosopher, husbandof Mary Wollstonecraft, and father of Mary Shelley. Godwin's http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/Online/www.english.upenn.edu/jlynch/Frank/Godwin/godwi

William Godwin William Godwin, , political philosopher, husband of Mary Wollstonecraft , and father of Mary Shelley Godwin's works, including works of political philosophy (including An Enquiry concerning Political Justice ) and several novels (including Caleb Williams and St. Leon ), advocate religious dissent, the rule of reason, and personal freedom bordering on political anarchy. Political Justice emphasizes the relationship between systems of government and ethical philosophy? In it he argues for the ultimate perfectibility of mankind, which he believed would result when reason assumed its proper place. Existing political systems, however, failed to produce happiness, equity, or freedom: in his insistence on the corrupting power of government, Godwin went beyond Rousseau 's ? Power? Property was to be held in common and made available to the neediest? Full Biography Works: An Enquiry concerning Political Justice The Pantheon, or, Ancient History of the Gods of Greece and Rome

13. William Godwin - Wikipedia William Godwin. William Godwin (March 3, 1756 April 7, 1836) was an Englishpolitical and miscellaneous writer, born at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Godwin

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help William Godwin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Godwin March 3 April 7 ) was an English political and miscellaneous writer , born at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire . His family on both sides were middle-class people, and it was probably only as a joke that Godwin, a stern political reformer and philosophical radical, attempted to trace his pedigree to a time before the Norman Conquest and the great earl, Godwine . Both parents were strict Calvinists . His father, a Nonconformist minister, died young, and never inspired love or much regret in his son; but in spite of wide differences of opinion, tender affection always subsisted between William Godwin and his mother, until her death at an advanced age. William Godwin was educated for his father's profession at Hoxton Academy , where he was under Andrew Kippis the biographer and Dr Abraham Rees of the Cyclopaedia , and was at first more Calvinistic than his teachers, becoming a Sandemanian, or follower of

14. William Godwin William Godwin. 17561836. William retribution. John Godwin had William readThe Bible, which William knew in it's entirety by the time he was eight. http://165.29.91.7/classes/humanities/britlit/97-98/shelley/GODWIN.HTM

William Godwin William Godwin, the father of Mary Shelley, was born March 3, 1756. He was a noted philosopher and novelist. His most famous works were a novel, Caleb Williams , which many consider to be the first detective story, and A n Inquiry into the Nature of Political Justice, a great treatise on liberalism. He was also known for his unshakeable intellectual honesty. " I will follow truth wherever she leads." Another interesting fact about William Godwin's belief system is that he believed that every individual life is inescapably determined by a chain of earlier events, which are not necessarily important in themselves. An example is; what if Shakespeare's mother had fallen off a ladder when she was pregnant. His father, John Godwin, was a strict Calvanist minister, who believed in predestination, original sin, and divine retribution. John Godwin had William read The Bible , which William knew in it's entirety by the time he was eight. William was an extremely intelligent child. He learned to read at the age of four and was sent to school at the age of eight where he learned history, poetry, and handwriting. Since none of his brothers displayed an interest in intellectual pursuits, his family decided to train him for the ministry. So, at the age of eleven, William was sent to live with the Reverend Samuel Newton, who was considered to be the best teacher in the district. The Reverend was a member of the strictist of Calvinist sects. Willaim's father, John Godwin, died in 1773. Shortly after, William's mother sent him to Hoxton Academy for Dissenters in London. Here William studied classics, theology, philosophy, Greek, and Latin. He also learned usable amounts of French, German, Italian, and Hebrew. William was successful at Hoxton but was not happy. A sense of loneliness, which grew over the years and is a theme in his novels, was already apparent. He left Hoxton in 1778 and accepted his first appointment as a dissenting minister in

15. William Godwin William Godwin forum, biography, portrait, pictures, lesson plansand online books including Thoughts on Man, His Nature, etc. http://authorsdirectory.com/biography_online_book_portrait_picture/g_authors_wil

16. Godwin Archive An extensive collection of online texts by this noted early anarchist. Also contains biography, bibliogr Category Society Philosophy Philosophers godwin, william...... william godwin. Emma Goldman. william godwin. This page has been accessed byvisitors outside of Pitzer College 62101 times since September 25, 1999. http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/godwin/Godwinarchive.html

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17. GODWIN, WILLIAM did his best to restrain the Inquisition and the purely reactionary parties http://9.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GO/GODWIN_WILLIAM.htm

document.write(""); GODWIN, WILLIAM did his best to restrain the Inquisition and the purely reactionary parties. AurH0R1TIEs.—Godoy’s Memoirs were published in Spanish, English and French in 1836. A general account of his career will be found in the Ménioires sur Ia Revolution d’Espagne, by the Abbé de Pradt (1816). GODROON, or GADROON (Fr. godron, of unknown etymology), in architecture, a convex decoration (said to be derived from raised work on linen) applied in France to varieties of the ,bead and reel, in which the bead is often carved with ornament. In England the term is constantly used by auctioneers to describe the raised convex decorations under the bowl of stone or terracotta vases. The godroons radiate from the vertical support of the vase and rise half-way up the bowl. GODWIN, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1 759—1797), English miscellaneous’ writer, was born at Hoxton, on the 27th of April 1759. Her family was of Irish extraction, and Mary’s grandfather, who was a respectable manufacturer in Spitalfields, realized the property’ which his son squandered. Her mother, Elizabeth Dixon, was Irish, and of good family. Her father, Edward John Wollstonecraft, after dissipating the greater part of his patrimony, tried to earn a living by farming, which only plunged him into deeper difficulties, and he led a wandering, shifty life. The family roamed from Hoxton to Edmonton, to Essex, to Beverley in Yorkshire, to Laugharne, Pembrokeshire, and back to London again. After Mrs Wollstonecraft’s death in 1780, soon followed by her husband’s second marriage, the three daughters, Mary, Everina and Eliza, sought to earn their own livelihood. The sisters were all clever women—Mary and Eliza far above the average’

18. WILLIAM GODWIN -- THE FIRST ANARCHIST william godwin (Mary Shelley's father), is the earliest modern anarchist thinker. http://www.radio4all.org/anarchy/godwin.html

William Godwin (1756-1836) William Godwin (Mary Shelley's father), is the earliest modern anarchist thinker. Excerpted from The Anarchist Writings of William Godwin published by Freedom Press. SUMMARY OF PRINCIPLES The reader who would form a just estimate of the reasonings of these volumes, cannot perhaps proceed more judiciously, than by examining for himself the truth of these principles, and the support they afford to the various inferences interspersed through the work. I. The true object of moral and political disquisition, is pleasure or happiness. The primary, or earliest class of human pleasures, is the pleasures of the external senses. In addition to these, man is susceptible of certain secondary pleasures, as the pleasures of intellectual feeling, the pleasures of sympathy, and the pleasures of self-approbation. The secondary pleasures are probably more exquisite than the primary: Or, at least, The most desirable state of man, is that, in which he has access to these sources of pleasure, and is in possession of a happiness the most varied and uninterrupted. This state is a state of high civilization.

19. William Godwin, 1756-1836 A detailed biography and texts. http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/godwin.html

William Godwin, 1756-1836 The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many . . . the light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Essays on His Own Times The father of philosophical anarchism, William Godwin, was born March 3, 1756 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and was the seventh of thirteen children of John Godwin and Anna Hull. Physically weak, introverted and intellectually precocious, Godwin held to strict Sandemanian Calvinism almost until the end of his formal education in 1778 at the Dissenting school, Hoxton Academy. John Godwin was a minister of the Sandeman variety and it was expected that young William would follow him into the ministry. Godwin later described Sandeman as a "celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin." Such an austere religiosity so early in life goes a long way to explain why Godwin would eventually become the prophet of philosophical anarchism. Political events in America and England, discussions with his associates and his study of the French

20. William Godwin On Education Ideas on education. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7404/godwinteach.html

William Godwin on Education William Godwin Nothing can be more pitiable... There is but one considerable objection that seems to oppose all these advantages [to a libertarian education]. The preceptor is terrified at the outset, and says, How shall I render the labors of literature an object of desire , and still more how shall I maintain this desire in all its vigour, in spite of the discouragements that will daily occur, and in spite of the quality incident to almost every human passion, that its fervour disappears in proportion as the novelty of the object subsides? But let us not hastily admit this for an insuperable objection. If the plan here proposed augments the difficulties of the teacher in one particular point, let it be remembered that it relieves him from an insufferable burthen in other repects. Nothing can be more pitable than the condition of the instructor in the present modes of education. He is the worst of slaves. He is consigned to the severest of imprisonments... Like the unfortunate wretch upon whom the lot has fallen in a city reduced to extremities, he is destroyed, that others may live... He is regarded as a tyrant by those under his jurisdiction, and he is a tyrant.

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