Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness. Volume 2
William Godwin
53 chapters · 14 h 44 min · English
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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
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1 BOOK V. CHAP. I. INTRODUCTION 8 min 2 BOOK V. CHAP. II. OF EDUCATION, THE EDUCATION OF A PRINCE 23 min 3 BOOK V. CHAP. III. PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRINCE 14 min 4 BOOK V. CHAP. IV. OF A VIRTUOUS DESPOTISM 11 min 5 BOOK V. CHAP. V. OF COURTS AND MINISTERS 20 min 6 BOOK V. CHAP. VI. OF SUBJECTS 21 min 7 BOOK V. CHAP. VII. OF ELECTIVE MONARCHY 12 min 8 BOOK V. CHAP. VIII. OF LIMITED MONARCHY 22 min 9 BOOK V. CHAP. IX. OF A PRESIDENT WITH REGAL POWERS 13 min 10 BOOK V. CHAP. X. OF HEREDITARY DISTINCTION 14 min 11 BOOK V. CHAP. XI. MORAL EFFECTS OF ARISTOCRACY 12 min 12 BOOK V. CHAP. XII. OF TITLES 8 min 13 BOOK V. CHAP. XIII. OF THE ARISTOCRATICAL CHARACTER 21 min 14 BOOK V. CHAP. XIV. GENERAL FEATURES OF DEMOCRACY 18 min 15 BOOK V. CHAP. XV. OF POLITICAL IMPOSTURE 34 min 16 BOOK V. CHAP. XVI. OF THE CAUSES OF WAR 19 min 17 BOOK V. CHAP. XVII. OF THE OBJECT OF WAR 7 min 18 BOOK V. CHAP. XVIII. OF THE CONDUCT OF WAR 13 min 19 BOOK V. CHAP. XIX. OF MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS AND TREATIES 13 min 20 BOOK V. CHAP. XX. OF DEMOCRACY AS CONNECTED WITH THE TRANSACTIONS OF WAR 10 min 21 BOOK V. CHAP. XXI. OP THE COMPOSITION OF GOVERNMENT 14 min 22 BOOK V. CHAP. XXII. OF THE FUTURE HISTORY OF POLITICAL SOCIETIES 15 min 23 BOOK V. CHAP. XXIII. OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES 14 min 24 BOOK V. CHAP. XXIV. OF THE DISSOLUTION OF GOVERNMENT 6 min 25 BOOK VI. CHAP. I. GENERAL EFFECTS OF THE POLITICAL SUPERINTENDENCE OF OPINION 29 min 26 BOOK VI. CHAP. II. OF RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS 10 min 27 BOOK VI. CHAP. III. OF THE SUPPRESSION OF ERRONEOUS OPINION IN RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT 20 min 28 BOOK VI. CHAP. IV. OF TESTS 12 min 29 BOOK VI. CHAP. V. OF OATHS 8 min 30 BOOK VI. CHAP. VI. OF LIBELS 23 min 31 BOOK VI. CHAP. VII. OF CONSTITUTIONS 20 min 32 BOOK VI. CHAP. VIII. OF NATIONAL EDUCATION 13 min 33 BOOK VI. CHAP. IX. OF PENSIONS AND SALARIES 17 min 34 BOOK VI. CHAP. X. OF THE MODES OF DECIDING A QUESTION ON THE PART OF THE COMMUNITY 6 min 35 BOOK VII. CHAP. I. LIMITATIONS OF THE DOCTRINE OF PUNISHMENT WHICH RESULT FROM THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY 13 min 36 BOOK VII. CHAP. II. GENERAL DISADVANTAGES OF PUNISHMENT 16 min 37 BOOK VII. CHAP. III. OF THE PURPOSES OF PUNISHMENT 14 min 38 BOOK VII. CHAP. IV. OF THE APPLICATION OF PUNISHMENT 20 min 39 BOOK VII. CHAP. V. OF PUNISHMENT CONSIDERED AS A TEMPORARY EXPEDIENT 29 min 40 BOOK VII. CHAP. VI. SCALE OF PUNISHMENT 23 min 41 BOOK VII. CHAP. VII. OF EVIDENCE 6 min 42 BOOK VII. CHAP. VIII. OF LAW 31 min 43 BOOK VII. CHAP. IX. OF PARDONS 11 min 44 BOOK VIII. CHAP. I. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS 17 min 45 BOOK VIII. CHAP. II. PRINCIPLES OF PROPERTY 30 min 46 BOOK VIII. CHAP. III. BENEFITS ATTENDANT ON A SYSTEM OF EQUALITY 28 min 47 BOOK VIII. CHAP. IV. OBJECTION TO THIS SYSTEM FROM THE FRAILTY OF THE HUMAN MIND 10 min 48 BOOK VIII. CHAP. V. OBJECTION TO THIS SYSTEM FROM QUESTION OF PERMANENCE 7 min 49 BOOK VIII. CHAP. VI. OBJECTION TO THIS SYSTEM FROM THE ALLUREMENTS OF SLOTH 14 min 50 BOOK VIII. CHAP. VII. OBJECTION TO THIS SYSTEM FROM THE BENEFITS OF LUXURY 11 min 51 BOOK VIII. CHAP. VIII. OBJECTION TO THIS SYSTEM FROM THE INFLEXIBILITY OF ITS RESTRICTIONS 27 min 52 BOOK VIII. CHAP. IX. OBJECTION TO THIS SYSTEM FROM THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION 22 min 53 BOOK VIII. CHAP.X. REFLECTIONS 37 min
