Anarchist thinkers: William Godwin (1756-1836)

Key ideas:

• rejected the concept of original sin, believing that people are born neither good nor bad
• he was optimistic that each individual, through education in morality and rationality, could be made into a perfectly moral human

Reforms he would make:

• in his main work, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, he claimed that the government would have no purpose in a rational, moral society
• governments have…