Ethics; Origin and Development - Kropotkin, Peter; Robinson, Victor
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First published in 1924, Peter Kropotkin's ¿Ethics: Origin and Development¿ is a classic of philosophy and ethics that constitutes one of the fundamental texts of late 19th and early 20th century anarchism. Within it, Kropotkin traces the development of moral teachings from ancient Greece and the Middle Ages to the 19th century philosophers, continuing the argument that sociable morality is essential to human survival. Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842¿1921) was a Russian writer, activist, revolutionary, economist, scientist, sociologist, essayist, historian, researcher, political scientist,…mehr

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First published in 1924, Peter Kropotkin's ¿Ethics: Origin and Development¿ is a classic of philosophy and ethics that constitutes one of the fundamental texts of late 19th and early 20th century anarchism. Within it, Kropotkin traces the development of moral teachings from ancient Greece and the Middle Ages to the 19th century philosophers, continuing the argument that sociable morality is essential to human survival. Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842¿1921) was a Russian writer, activist, revolutionary, economist, scientist, sociologist, essayist, historian, researcher, political scientist, geographer, geographer, biologist, philosopher and advocate of anarcho-communism. He was a prolific writer, producing a large number of pamphlets and articles, the most notable being ¿The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops¿ and ¿Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution¿. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from ¿Comrade Kropotkin¿ by Victor Robinson.
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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian anarchist and geographerknownas a proponent of anarchist communism. Born into an aristocratic land-owning family, Kropotkin attended a militaryschooland later served as an officer in Siberia, where he participated in several geologicalexpeditions. He was imprisoned for his activism in 1874 and managedtoescapetwoyears later. He spent the next 41 years in exile in Switzerland, France (wherehewasimprisoned for almost four years) and England. While in exile, he gave lecturesandpublished widely on anarchism and geography. Kropotkin returned toRussiaafterthe Russian Revolution in 1917, but he was disappointed by the Bolshevikstate. Kropotkin was a proponent of a decentralized communist society free fromcentralgovernment and based on voluntary associations of self-governing communitiesandworker-run enterprises. He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, themostprominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories, andWorkshops,with Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution being his principal scientific offering. Hecontributed the article on anarchism to the Encyclopædia BritannicaEleventhEdition and left an unfinished work on anarchist ethical