Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness, Volume 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness, Volume 2, credited to William Godwin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness, Volume 2 by William Godwin. Read in English by Jddykst; Arden; ReeceT; HenRMJ; KateTk; Michael Poling; J. Grunfelder; Anautumnous; czandra It was Godwin, in his Enquiry concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), who was the first to formulate the political and economical conceptions of anarchism, even though he did not give that name to the ideas developed in his remarkable work. Laws, he wrote, are not a product of the wisdom of our ancestors: they are the product of their passions, their timidity, their jealousies and their ambition. The remedy they offer is worse than the evils they pretend to cure. - Summary by Peter Kropotkin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness, Volume 2
• Author credits: William Godwin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 53
• Listed recording duration: 14:43:53

Catalogue topics

• politics
• punishment
• property
• coercion

Opening tracks: first 24 of 53

1. 01 - BOOK V. CHAP. I. INTRODUCTION — 7:38
2. 02 - BOOK V. CHAP. II. OF EDUCATION, THE EDUCATION OF A PRINCE — 23:00
3. 03 - BOOK V. CHAP. III. PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRINCE. — 14:27
4. 04 - BOOK V. CHAP. IV. OF A VIRTUOUS DESPOTISM — 10:43
5. 05 - BOOK V. CHAP. V. OF COURTS AND MINISTERS — 19:56
6. 06 - BOOK V. CHAP. VI. OF SUBJECTS — 20:47
7. 07 - BOOK V. CHAP. VII. OF ELECTIVE MONARCHY — 11:44
8. 08 - BOOK V. CHAP. VIII. OF LIMITED MONARCHY — 22:19
9. 09 - BOOK V. CHAP. IX. OF A PRESIDENT WITH REGAL POWERS — 12:51
10. 10 - BOOK V. CHAP. X. OF HEREDITARY DISTINCTION — 13:38
11. 11 - BOOK V. CHAP. XI. MORAL EFFECTS OF ARISTOCRACY — 12:15
12. 12 - BOOK V. CHAP. XII. OF TITLES — 7:32
13. 13 - BOOK V. CHAP. XIII. OF THE ARISTOCRATICAL CHARACTER — 20:51
14. 14 - BOOK V. CHAP. XIV. GENERAL FEATURES OF DEMOCRACY — 18:26
15. 15 - BOOK V. CHAP. XV. OF POLITICAL IMPOSTURE — 34:09
16. 16 - BOOK V. CHAP. XVI. OF THE CAUSES OF WAR — 19:13
17. 17 - BOOK V. CHAP. XVII. OF THE OBJECT OF WAR — 7:01
18. 18 - BOOK V. CHAP. XVIII. OF THE CONDUCT OF WAR — 12:42
19. 19 - BOOK V. CHAP. XIX. OF MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS AND TREATIES — 12:59
20. 20 - BOOK V. CHAP. XX. OF DEMOCRACY AS CONNECTED WITH THE TRANSACTIONS OF WAR — 10:04
21. 21 - BOOK V. CHAP. XXI. OP THE COMPOSITION OF GOVERNMENT — 13:54
22. 22 - BOOK V. CHAP. XXII. OF THE FUTURE HISTORY OF POLITICAL SOCIETIES — 14:46
23. 23 - BOOK V. CHAP. XXIII. OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES — 13:48
24. 24 - BOOK V. CHAP. XXIV. OF THE DISSOLUTION OF GOVERNMENT — 5:44

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