About this title: Written in part as a theoretical reply to the stodgy conservatism of Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the French Revolution" (1790), Paine's "Rights of Man" (1791-92) sets forth a manifesto of popular democratic rule in the established tradition of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In it Paine offers a discussion of the nature of political man ...
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Echo Library
Date Published: 03/2006
ISBN-13:9781847021908ISBN:1847021905
Description: Fine Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 184 p. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780486408934ISBN:0486408930
Description: Near-Fine. 8vo. {007631} Rights of Man by Thomas Paine. ISBN 0486408930. Published by Dover Pubns in 1999. TRADE PAPERBACK 8vo History {Book Condition} NEAR-FINE {Book Condition Details} Cover: minor edge wear, minor creasing on Spine, minor creasing, minor rubbing. {Keywords} FRANCE HISTORY REVOLUTION 1789 1799. read more
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Sidenote: Alive today, the original T-Paine would horsewhip Glenn Beck, not endorse his idiocy. To wit, in TROM Paine supports progressive income taxation to support, among other things, healthcare for the poor."
"In his rebuttal to Edmond Burke's unflattering discussion of the French Revolution, Mr. Paine brandishes the fundamental ideas of republicanism, liberty and justice in defense of the early events of the French Revolution (at the same time admonishing the previous American Revolution and pushing for revolution in England). Mr. Paine selectively addresses major arguments in Burke's work, leaving one to wonder whether it would have been more useful to have read Burke's work first as there is no delusion that this is biased writing. Make no mistake, this bias makes it excellent for what it is, an inflammatory pamphlet defending new and radical ideas, employing sarcasm, wit and emotion with clear and concise reasoning and examples. It will not be a fair representation of Burke, but one is to suspect it is still quite effective at raising thoughtful criticism. In many ways this work, especially referring to the French Revolution, is handicapped as it is written from the perspective of a contemporary at the beginning of the French Revolution, leaving him without even the most minimal hindsight necessary to provide a fully adequate analysis (there is nothing but praise). However, Paine's importance in history is not in the way he develop ideas many of us hold dear today, but how simply those ideas were elaborated and how courageously he rose to defend them. To put him in today's context, Paine would be either a syndicated op-ed writer or probably have his own cable news program before Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Other points of interest are the last few chapters where Mr. Paine advocates for the English the democratic peace theory, progressive income tax and social welfare programs all the while defending small efficient governance."
"Paine lasted 364 pages (Common Sense, RIghts of man) before giving in to the paternalistic tendency... and thus contradicting himself, if you ask me."
"Well, good to cross this one of my list of 'great books to read before you die'. Paine's polemical style rankles and there are large sections where he caricatures Burke's arguments to the point of ridicule. Whatever you think of the political tradition he represented, Burke was a great thinker and a worthy opponent of radical, progressive currents.
Paine also suffers from being so wrong in his confident assertions about the benefits that would come from the triumph of rational, representative government. The vision of harmony and piece between the nations of the world might yet come about, but it certainly needed a lot more than the reform of the parliamentary franchise and the abolition of rotton boroughs to get us there.
But this is very harsh on a man who is more important for the movement his work gave impetus to, rather than the exact meaning of the text. Paine was a democrat who acted consistently with that viewpoint throughout his life - facing imprisonment and the threat of execution, exile and marginalisation as a consequence. Society had to evolve to a more scientific stage, moving beyond emotional affirmation of the 'good' over the 'bad', to understand the reasons why progress in human affairs is so crab-like, and the nature of the forces which resist it. But Paine is a link in the chain between the Enlightenment and the Communist Manifesto, and there will be many more links before we get to the end."
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