Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author:
Williamson M. Evers
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In Kropotkin’s pamphlet on Anarchist Morality , he applauded the empiricist philosophers of the 18th-century Enlightenment for rejecting religious interpretations of human action and adopting an account that made the quest of pleasure and avoidance of pain the source of human motivation. Kropotkin joined with Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and