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MrRodgers -> RE: Interesting Dilemna? (6/8/2014 3:51:16 AM)
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer
Whoa, you're becoming an anarchist, DS! [;)]
On William Godwin:
"Godwin is generally regarded as the founder of the school of thought known as 'philosophical anarchism'. He argued in Political Justice (1793)[72][74] that government has an inherently malevolent influence on society, and that it perpetuates dependency and ignorance. He thought that the spread of the use of reason to the masses would eventually cause government to wither away as an unnecessary force. Although he did not accord the state with moral legitimacy, he was against the use of revolutionary tactics for removing the government from power. Rather, he advocated for its replacement through a process of peaceful evolution.[72][75]
His aversion to the imposition of a rules-based society led him to denounce, as a manifestation of the people’s ‘mental enslavement’, the foundations of law, property rights and even the institution of marriage. He considered the basic foundations of society as constraining the natural development of individuals to use their powers of reasoning to arrive at a mutually beneficial method of social organisation. In each case, government and its institutions are shown to constrain the development of our capacity to live wholly in accordance with the full and free exercise of private judgment."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
Yes but where I disagree with Godwin is that a society could have laws without private property which I feel came about by greed...same as money. Marriage similar, which I feel came about through the insecurity of possessiveness all of which from the sin of pride and was to be spiritual...not legal. The contractual of private property or money with the exception of personal trinkets thus...rendered of little consequence.
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