Thomas Paine and the idea of human rights /
"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. Thou...
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Paine as political philosopher: interpretation and understanding
- 2. Political obligation, human rights and the moral universe
- 3. Rights of democratic inclusion and the virtues of citizenship
- 4. Private property, the natural inheritance and rights to welfare
- 5. Cosmopolitanism and the rights of nations
- 6. Religion, creation and liberalism
- Conclusion.
