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William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. [1]
William Godwin was a social philosopher, political journalist, and religious dissenter who anticipated the English Romantic literary movement with his writings advancing atheism, anarchism, and personal freedom. Godwin’s idealistic liberalism was based on the principle of the absolute sovereignty.
Jan 16, 2000 · William Godwin (1756–1836) was the founder of philosophical anarchism.
William Godwin is a biography of the philosopher William Godwin (1756–1836) written by Peter Marshall and first published in 1984 by Yale University Press. Bibliography [ edit ] Bromwich, David (October 21, 1984).
William Godwin (1756–1836) Following the publication of An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice in 1793 and his most successful novel, Caleb Williams, in 1794, William Godwin was briefly celebrated as the most influential English thinker of the age.
William Godwin (March 3, 1756 – April 7, 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of anarchism.
(1756—1836) philosopher and novelist. Quick Reference. (1756–1836), was at first a Dissenting minister, but became an atheist and philosopher of anarchical view. He believed that men acted according to reason and that rational creatures could live in harmony without laws or institutions.
Mar 13, 2024 · The late eighteenth-century radical polymath William Godwin has occupied an awkward position in anarchist intellectual culture in Britain.
William Godwin, English political philosopher, novelist, and essayist, was born at Wisbech, in Cambridgeshire, where his father was a dissenting minister.
William Godwin (1756–1836) was born in a village of Cambridgeshire, son of a dissenter minister. He was educated in the Hoxton Dissenting Academy to prepare him as a minister too. In 1783, he abandons his congregation position and starts earning his life as independent writer and as journalist.
