{"id":1003,"date":"2023-01-31T18:40:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T22:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/mary-shelleys-father-on-the-relationship-between-personal-happiness-imagination-and-social-harmony-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-01-31T18:40:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T22:40:14","slug":"mary-shelleys-father-on-the-relationship-between-personal-happiness-imagination-and-social-harmony-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/mary-shelleys-father-on-the-relationship-between-personal-happiness-imagination-and-social-harmony-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Shelley\u2019s Father on the Relationship Between Personal Happiness, Imagination, and Social Harmony \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge,\u201d the philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote as he reflected on how to stop limiting your happiness<\/a>. \u201cNeither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.\u201d<\/p>\n

A century and a half before him, the radical and far-seeing political philosopher and novelist William Godwin<\/strong> (March 3, 1756\u2013April 7, 1836) \u2014 father of Frankenstein<\/em> author Mary Shelley<\/a> \u2014 examined the building blocks of the good life in The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>) \u2014 the book he began writing when his wife, the radical and far-seeing political philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft<\/a>, was pregnant with the daughter whose birth would kill her. <\/p>\n

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