Work
Rights of Man
Overview
Rights of Man is a book by Thomas Paine first published in 1791, including 31 articles, positing 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 (1790).
It was published in Britain in two parts in March 1791 and February 1792.
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Philosophers who discussed Rights of Man
Related ideas
- Edmund Burke
- French Revolution
- Glorious Revolution
- William Godwin
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
- John Locke
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Richard Price
- James Wilson (Founding Father)
- Welfare spending
- Republicanism
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Social class
- Thomas Jefferson
- Progressive tax
- Age of Enlightenment
- Thomas Paine
- United States Declaration of Independence
- Natural rights and legal rights
- Monarchy of the United Kingdom
- Workhouse
- Democracy
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.