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Proudhon on “libertarians” in 1858
I’ve been working my way through those sections of Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church which I didn’t have to consult carefully while writing the chapter on the State, as the […]
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Proudhon on the “right to punish”
[Here is another section from the study on moral sanction, the concluding section of Justice in the Revolution and in the Church.] II. — Does society have the right to punish? The philosophers struggle, and […]
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Proudhon, Justice: Twelfth Study
The final study in Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church deals with the question of “moral sanction.” This section explains the identity, within Proudhon’s thought of the law, the legislator, and the […]
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From Proudhon’s study on the State (“Justice,” 1858)
[These passages are taken from the Fourth Study, on “The State,” in Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church.] [From CHAPTER I.] V. — I will not make my readers wait for the […]
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Proudhon, women, and the “organ of justice”
Back in March, 2010, at the end of the essay “Two-Gun Mutualism and the Golden Rule,” I promised to delve deeper into the question of Proudhon’s writing on women and the family—a promise I’m […]
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Society for the Mutual Education of Women, “Response to Satan on the Subject of Mr. Proudhon”
[When George Dairnvaell attacked Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in 1848, an anonymous member of the Society for the Mutual Education of Women, an organization founded by Jeanne Deroin and Désirée Gay Gay, came to his defense] [Note: […]
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Proudhon’s “Catechism of Marriage”
I’ve posted a working translation of Proudhon’s “Catechism of Marriage,” from the fourth volume of Justice in the Revolution and in the Church. It’s strange stuff, and unappealing in a variety of ways, but I […]
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P.-J. Proudhon, “Catechism of Marriage”
CATECHISM OF MARRIAGE [from Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, New Edition, Vol. IV] Question. — What is the conjugal couple? Answer. — Every power of nature, every faculty of life, every affection […]
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JUSTICE: Program – Conclusion
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Volume I, “Program,” section XIII. § XIII. — CONCLUSION The papacy having been broken, Catholicism is brought low: there is no more religion in the […]
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JUSTICE: A word about the situation
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Volume I, “Program,” section XII. § XII. — A word about the situation. It is by their principles, religious or philosophical, that societies live. Before […]