Human rights

“According to Paine, a free country should be governed not by individuals, but by laws that guarantee natural rights and are fair in this sense. The system of coming to power through elections is actually monarchy and absolutism if the person who comes to power will use unlimited authority and violate natural rights. "If he uses the unlimited sovereignty he came to power through elections, he is establishing a despotic government in the same sense and to the same degree."

-AYSEN CANDAS-

Thomas Paine is one of the symbolic thinkers and politicians of the Enlightenment century, who participated in and supported both the American Revolution and the French Revolution, and whose pamphlets and books had a great impact on both revolutions. Both of these revolutions bear concrete traces of the ideas in Paine's pamphlet The Age of Reason, written in 1776.

Paine's Rights of Man is a strong response to the book written by Edmund Burke to discredit the 1789 revolution, fearing that the republican and democratic wave of the French Revolution would destroy the British parliamentary monarchy. It is also current. In today's world, where an empty understanding of democracy is on the rise, reduced to majoritarianism and plebiscite, whose essence of justice, equality and the guarantee of freedoms is gradually being destroyed, the republican and democratic principles defended in Human Rights continue to be an important source of inspiration for those who defend equal citizenship, commons and solidarity. .

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 312

Size: 13 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Media Type: Paperback