PHIL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Reform War, French Revolution, Normative Social Influence
17 Dec 2015
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Slavery, anti-gay laws and supported equality for women, the french revolution. Seems progressive but yet against the declaration of right of man and citizens. Worried about article 2: the final end of every political institution is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are those of liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression. : he was opposed to 2 points-> that there are such. Bentham-> developed utilitarianism to reform laws, opposed things as rights anterior to the establishment of governments. In these cases, a reason exists for wishing that there were rights. But a reason for wishing that a certain right were established, is not that right, want is not supply, hunger is not bread. Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, nonsense upon stilts. Essentially saying that is mistaken and very dangerous nonsense. Natural rights claims are either meaningless or false: the pamphlet: shows fear that another society will tell.
