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William Godwin è stato un filosofo, scrittore e politico libertario britannico. Pensatore del tardo Illuminismo nonché ispiratore di parte del Romanticismo del Regno Unito, specialmente la "seconda generazione romantica" comprendente John Keats, il genero Percy Bysshe Shelley e George Gordon Byron, radicale e repubblicano, è considerato uno ...
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.
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.
16 gen 2000 · 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 and ...
Scrittore inglese (Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, 1756 - Londra 1836). Dopo alcuni romanzi dimenticati e alcuni saggi storici, pubblicò l'opera per cui è noto: The enquiry concerning the principles of political justice (1793).
Figlio di un pastore protestante dissidente, nacque a Wisbeach (Cambridgeshire) il 3 marzo 1756, e morì a Londra nel Palace Yard il 7 aprile 1836. Passò la sua fanciullezza a Guestwich, nel Norfolk.
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.
