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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.
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).
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 the expansion ...
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. Nel 1764 fu mandato alla scuola di Hindolveston e nel 1767 passò a quella di Samuele Newton a Norwich, dove rimase fino al 1771, subendo l ...
Welcome to the award-winning digital edition of the diary of William Godwin (1756-1836). Godwin’s diary consists of 32 octavo notebooks. The first entry is for 6 April 1788 and the final entry is for 26 March 1836, shortly before he died.
