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An introduction to and analytical reconstruction of Thomas Paine's political philosophy and his account of human rights.
Author : Robert Lamb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107106524
An introduction to and analytical reconstruction of Thomas Paine's political philosophy and his account of human rights.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 1906
Category : France
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Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2008-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802143839
Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. In this book, he demonstrates how Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the U.S.
Author : J. C. D. Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198816995
J.C.D. Clark demythologizes the history of Thomas Paine, understanding the impact he has had on modern human rights, democracy, and internationalism.
Author : Jack Fruchtman Jr.
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801892848
This concise, insightful study explores the sources and impact of one of the early republic's most influential minds. An Englishman by birth, an American by choice and necessity, Thomas Paine advocated ideas about rights, equality, democracy, and liberty that were far advanced beyond those of his American compatriots. His seminal works, Common Sense and the Rights of Man, were rallying cries for the American and French Revolutions. More than any other eighteenth-century political writer and activist, Paine defies easy categorization. A man of contrasts and contradictions, Paine was as much a believer in the power of reason as he was in a benevolent deity. He was at once liberal and conservative, a Quaker who was not a pacifist, and an inherently gifted writer who was convinced he was always right. Jack Fruchtman Jr. analyzes Paine's radical thought both in the context of his time and as a blueprint for the future development of republican government. His systematic approach identifies the themes of signal importance to Paine's political thought, demonstrating especially how crucial religion and God were to the development and expression of his political ideals.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : The Capitol Net Inc
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 1587332299
Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, on the Following Interesting Subjects, viz.: I. Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession. III. Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs. IV. Of the Present Ability of America, with some Miscellaneous Reflections
Author : Yuval Levin
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0465040942
An acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the roots of the left/right political divide in America by examining the views of the men who best represented each side at its origin: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. Striving to forge a new political path in the tumultuous age of the American and French revolutions, these two ideological titans sparred over moral and philosophical questions about the nature of political life and the best approach to social change: radical and swift, or gradual and incremental. The division they articulated continues to shape our political life today. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the basis of our political order and Washington's acrimonious rifts today, The Great Debate offers a profound examination of what conservatism, progressivism, and the debate between them truly amount to.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0244600007
Tom Paine's 'Agrarian Justice' (1797) continues to inspire progressive politicians today as a source of two contemporary policies, Land Value Taxation and Universal (Basic) Income (Citizen's Income). His starting point was the belief, widespread until the end of the eighteenth century, that the Earth is the common property of humankind. Rather than advocating the common ownership of land, he proposed that landowners 'owe to the community a ground-rent', the market rent of their land. He advocated that this be paid into a fund to be used for the benefit of all, both as a lump sum payment on reaching adulthood and as a pension for older people. He is well worth reading for his passion and rhetoric. This publication also includes a riposte written in the same year by Thomas Spence, who had published a similar but more radical proposal in 1776. It also contains a 20th century re-statement of individual and common rights to the Earth and a summary of the relevance of Agrarian Justice today.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 1994-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0679433147
The authorities in power in England during Thomas Paine’s lifetime saw him as an agent provocateur who used his seditious eloquence to support the emancipation of slaves and women, the demands of working people, and the rebels of the French and American Revolutions. History, on the other hand, has come to regard him as the figure who gave political cogency to the liberating ideas of the Enlightenment. His great pamphlets, Rights of Man and Common Sense, are now recognized for what they are–classic arguments in defense of the individual’s right to assert his or her freedom in the face of tyranny.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political science
ISBN : 9780521667999
Recoge:Common Sense; Rights of Man; The age of Reason; Agrarian justice.