An Enquiry concerning Political Justice
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[For a third edition, published in 1798, Godwin susbtantially revised
this work, toning down some of its more radical political statements and
adding a few chapters on the value of human sympathy. At points,
therefore, some commentary will not be linked to this text because it
touches upon language or cites passages not to be found in the original
edition.]
- Book I: Of the Importance of Political Institutions
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: History of Political Society
- Chapter 3: The Moral Characters of Men Originate in their
Perceptions
- Chapter 4: Three Principal Causes of Moral Improvement Considered I.
Literature II. Education III. Political Justice
- Chapter 5: Influence of Political Institutions Exemplified
- Chapter 6: Human Inventions Capable of Perpetual Improvement
- Chapter 7: Of the Objection to these Principles from the Influence
of Climate
- Chapter 8: Of the Objection to these Principles from the Influence
of Luxury
- Book II: Principles of Society
- Book III: Principles of Government
- Book IV: Miscellaneous Principles
- Chapter 1: Of Resistance
- Chapter 2: Of Revolutions
- Chapter 3: Of Tyrranicide
- Chapter 4: Of the Cultivation of Truth -- Appendix I. Of the
Connections between Understanding and Virtue Appendix II. Of the Mode of Excluding Visitors
Appendix III. Subject of Sincerity Resumed
- Chapter 5: Of Free Will and Necessity
- Chapter 6: Inferences from the Doctrine of Necessity
- Chapter 7: Of the Mechanism of the Human Mind
- Chapter 8: Of the Principle of Virtue
- Chapter 9: Of the Tendency of Virtue
- Book V: Of Legislative and Executive Power
- Book VI: Of Opinion Considered as a Subject of Political Institution
- Book VII: Of Crimes and Punishments
- Book VIII: Of Property
- Chapter 1: Genuine System of Property Delineated
- Chapter 2: Benefits Arising from the Genuine System of Property
- Chapter 3: Of the Objection to this System from the Admirable
Effects of Luxury
- Chapter 4: Of the Objection to this System from the Allurements of
Sloth
- Chapter 5: Of the Objection to this System from the Impossibility of
its Being Rendered Permanent
- Chapter 6: Of the Objection to this System from the Inflexibility of
its Restrictions
- Chapter 7: Of the Objection to this System from the Principle of
Population
- Chapter 8: Of the Means of Introducing the Genuine System of
Property
