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单词 Godwin, William (1756–1836)
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Godwin, William (1756–1836)

Philosophy
  • Godwin enjoyed a long but mainly undistinguished career as a writer, but his great decade was the 1790s, when he became famous as a prominent defender of radicalism and anarchism. His principal work was the Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793). Godwin was a utilitarian, who believed that all government, and all apparatus of legal coercion, corrupts and perverts human nature. He was married to Mary Wollstonecraft and was the father of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.


World History
  • At first a dissenting minister, he subsequently became an atheist and expounded theories of anarchic social organization based on a belief in the goodness of human reason and on his doctrine of extreme individualism. His ideological novel Caleb Williams (1794), which exposes the tyranny exercised by the ruling classes, was an early example of the crime and detection novel. In 1797 he married Mary Wollstonecraft, who died after giving birth to their daughter who became Mary Shelley.


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