ENGLISH LITERATURE QUESTION?

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i am studying oscar wilde and i was wondering if anyone has any ideas about what his philosophy would be
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For much of his life, Wilde advocated socialism, which he argued "will be of value simply because it will lead to individualism". He also had a strong libertarian streak as shown in his poem Sonnet to Liberty and, subsequent to reading the works of Peter Kropotkin (whom he described as "a man with a soul of that beautiful white Christ which seems coming out of Russia");he declared himself an anarchist.

Wilde was also a pacifist and quipped that "When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her". In addition to his primary political text, the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism, Wilde wrote several letters to the Daily Chronicle advocating prison reform and was the sole signatory of George Bernard Shaw's petition for a pardon of the anarchists arrested (and later executed) after the Haymarket massacre in Chicago in 1886.

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thank you so much! <3

Answer 2

I always liked one quotation from him:

"Youth is wasted on the young."

Not sure that would be his philosophy, but it might be a starting point for you.