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William Godwin - Coggle Diagram
William Godwin
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Evidence-based Work
An Inquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (1793)
Used to refect conventional goernment by demonstrating the corrupting evil and tyranny inherent in is power of manipulation.
In its place, he proposed small self subsisting communities.
Argued that social institutions fail because they impose on man generalized though categories and preconceived ideas, which make it impossible to see things as they are.
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Thoughts of Man: His Nature, Production and Discoveries (1831)
Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794)
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Work
Anticipated the English Romantic literary movement with his writings advancing atheism, anarchism, and personal freedom.
His idealistic liberalism was based on the principal of the absolute sovereignty and competence of reason to determine the "right" choice.
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Impact
Has been claimed that Godwin's work laid the foundations for the mutually contradictory doctrines of communism and anarchy.
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Personal Info
Born March 3rd, 1756 in England
Died April 7th, 1836, London
Quotes:
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"Property was to be held, a sacred trust, at the disposal of him whose need was greatest.