I n this work he argued that, if human reason could be ‘perfected’, then unjust, authoritarian laws and institutions could be overturned and ordinary people would no longer be oppressed. This was reflected in his defining work, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, written against the back drop of the French Revolution and published in 1793. H e moved to London and began to develop his own political philosophy, based on anarchism and utilitarianism. William Godwin (1756-1836) was born in Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, the son of a nonconformist minister in a strict Calvinist family.
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