Thomas Paine

The Rights of Man (eBook, ePUB)

Thomas Pain's Defense of the French Revolution Against Edmund Burke's Attack

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rights of Man, a book by Thomas Paine, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France. Paine argues that the interests of the monarch and his people are united, and insists that the French Revolution should be understood as one which attacks the despotic principles of the French monarchy, not the king himself, and he takes the Bastille, the main prison in Paris, to symbolize the despotism that had been overthrown.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Madison & Adams Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788027304806
• Artikelnr.: 65002848

Autorenporträt

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets of the revolutionary era, Common Sense and The Rights of Men.