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Explain as to why Jeremy Bentham dismisses the theory of natural rights as ‘nonsense upon stilts.’

  • UPSC 2009
  • Rights

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Jeremy Bentham wrote Anarchical Fallacies in the mid-1790s as a clause-by-clause attack on the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789). Étienne Dumont first published it in French in 1816; the English text appeared in John Bowring's edition of 1843. His verdict: Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible…

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  • Why "nonsense": the four arguments
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