Anarchical Fallacies; being an Examination of the Declarations of Rights issued
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- ~36,400 words · 173 passages
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- APAJeremy Bentham. (n.d.). Anarchical Fallacies; being an Examination of the Declarations of Rights issued. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/jeremy-bentham/anarchical-fallacies-being-an-examination-of-the-declarations-of-rights-issued
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What it is about
Anarchical Fallacies: an examination of the French declarations of rights.
Context and history
This is the source of 'natural and imprescriptible rights: nonsense upon stilts'. Bentham attacks rights not out of reaction but because he will not accept that they exist prior to the law that creates them. It is the harshest critique the language of human rights has received, and it is still being answered.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
"THE Representatives of the French people, constituted in National Assembly, considering that ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the Rights of Man, are the only causes of public calamities, and of the corruption of governments, have resolved to set forth in a solemn declaration, the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declaration, constantly presented to all the members of the body social, may recall to mind, without ceasing, their rights and their duties; to the end, that the acts of the legislative power, and those of the executive power, being capable at every instant of comparison with the end of every political institution, they may be more respected, and also that the demands of the citizens hereafter, founded upon simple and incontestable principles, may always tend to the maintenance of the constitution and to the happiness of all." "In consequence, the National Assembly acknowledges and declares, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following Rights of the Man and the Citizen." From this preamble we may collect the following positions: 1. That the declaration in question ought to include a declaration of all the powers which it is designed should thereafter subsist in the State; the limits of each power precisely laid down, and every one completely distinguished from the other. 2. That the articles by which this is to be done, ought not to be loose and scattered, but closely connected into a whole, and the connexion all along made visible. 3. That the declaration of the rights of man, in a state preceding that of political society, ought to form a part of the composition in question, and constitute the first part of it. 4. That in point of fact, a clear idea of all these stands already imprinted in the minds of every man. 5. That, therefore, the objec
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