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

William Godwin (1756 - 1836)

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)

Genre(s): Political Science, Early Modern

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	PREFACE	KevinS	00:09:39
Play 02	PREFACE TO THE THE SECOND EDITION	KevinS	00:07:53
Play 03	SUMMARY OF PRINCIPLES - ESTABLISHED AND REASONED UPON IN THE FOLLOWING WORK	KevinS	00:06:54
Play 04	BOOK I. CHAP. I.	Tina Ding	00:09:40
Play 05	BOOK I. CHAP. II.	Michele Fry	00:13:08
Play 06	BOOK I. CHAP. III.	Michele Fry	00:16:39
Play 07	BOOK I. CHAP. IV.	William Allan Jones	00:46:35
Play 08	BOOK I. CHAP. V. Part 1.	William Allan Jones	00:42:57
Play 09	BOOK I. CHAP. V. Part 2.	William Allan Jones	00:38:07
Play 10	BOOK I. CHAP. VI.	Jddykst	00:16:31
Play 11	BOOK I. CHAP. VII.	Jddykst	00:08:07
Play 12	BOOK I. CHAP. VIII.	Jddykst	00:18:44
Play 13	BOOK II. CHAP. I.	Tina Ding	00:08:08
Play 14	BOOK II. CHAP. II.	Jddykst	00:24:23
Play 15	BOOK II. CHAP. II. Appendix, No. 1	Nemo	00:04:19
Play 16	BOOK II. CHAP. II. Appendix, No. 2	Nemo	00:06:23
Play 17	BOOK II. CHAP. III.	Jddykst	00:08:30
Play 18	BOOK II. CHAP. IV.	Jddykst	00:17:22
Play 19	BOOK II. CHAP. V.	Jddykst	00:20:07
Play 20	BOOK II. CHAP. VI.	Jddykst	00:20:31
Play 21	BOOK III. CHAP. I.	Jddykst	00:07:20
Play 22	BOOK III. CHAP. II.	Jddykst	00:09:33
Play 23	BOOK III. CHAP. III.	Jddykst	00:34:24
Play 24	BOOK III. CHAP. IV.	Jddykst	00:11:54
Play 25	BOOK III. CHAP. V.	Jddykst	00:03:44
Play 26	BOOK III. CHAP. VI.	Jddykst	00:28:42
Play 27	BOOK III. CHAP. VII.	Michele Fry	00:11:54
Play 28	BOOK IV. CHAP. I.	Jddykst	00:30:29
Play 29	BOOK IV. CHAP. II.	Jddykst	00:38:51
Play 30	BOOK IV. CHAP. III.	Tina Ding	00:30:04
Play 31	BOOK IV. CHAP. IV.	otiosus	00:06:39
Play 32	BOOK IV. CHAP. V.	William Allan Jones	00:18:32
Play 33	BOOK IV. CHAP. V. Appendix	William Allan Jones	00:20:21
Play 34	BOOK VI. CHAP. VI.	Jddykst	00:25:15
Play 35	BOOK IV. CHAP. VI. Appendix, No. 1	Jddykst	00:27:24
Play 36	BOOK IV. CHAP. VI. Appendix, No. 2	Jddykst	00:06:48
Play 37	BOOK IV. CHAP. VII.	Jddykst	00:40:18
Play 38	BOOK IV. CHAP. VIII.	Jddykst	00:24:59
Play 39	BOOK IV. CHAP. IX.	Amy Gramour	00:35:53
Play 40	BOOK IV. CHAP. X.	Amy Gramour	00:27:21
Play 41	BOOK IV. CHAP. XI.	William Allan Jones	00:43:20

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