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Thomas Paine and the Idea of Human Rights (Hardcover)
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Thomas Paine and the Idea of Human Rights (Hardcover)
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Thomas Paine is a legendary Anglo-American political icon: a
passionate, plain-speaking, relentlessly controversial,
revolutionary campaigner, whose writings captured the zeitgeist of
the two most significant political events of the eighteenth
century, the American and French Revolutions. Though widely
acknowledged by historians as one of the most important and
influential pamphleteers, rhetoricians, polemicists and political
actors of his age, the philosophical content of his writing has
nevertheless been almost entirely ignored. This book takes Paine's
political philosophy seriously. It explores his views concerning a
number of perennial issues in modern political thought including
the grounds for, and limits to, political obligation; the nature of
representative democracy; the justification for private property
ownership; international relations; and the relationship between
secular liberalism and religion. It shows that Paine offers a
historically and philosophically distinct account of liberalism and
a theory of human rights that is a progenitor of our own.
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