Loyalist Propaganda and the Scandalous Life of Tom Paine: ‘Hypocritical Monster!’

Wagner, Corinna

doi:10.1111/j.1754-0208.2005.tb00319.x

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Thomas Paine and the Idea of Human Rights

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2015

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Thomas Paine is a legendary Anglo-American political icon: a passionate, plain-speaking, relentlessly controversial, revolutionary campaigner, whose writings captured the zeitgeist of the two most significant political events of the eighteenth century, the American and French Revolutions. Though widely acknowledged by historians as one of the most important and influential pamphleteers, rhetoricians, polemicists and political actors of his age, the philosophical content of his writing has nevertheless been almost entirely ignored. This book takes Paine's political philosophy seriously. It explores his views concerning a number of perennial issues in modern political thought including the grounds for, and limits to, political obligation; the nature of representative democracy; the justification for private property ownership; international relations; and the relationship between secular liberalism and religion. It shows that Paine offers a historically and philosophically distinct account of liberalism and a theory of human rights that is a progenitor of our own.

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Thomas Paine and the Idea of Human Rights

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2015

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Cosmopolitanism and the rights of nations

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2015

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Liberty, Equality, and the Boundaries of Ownership: Thomas Paine's Theory of Property Rights

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2010

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Thomas Paine is customarily regarded as a pamphleteer, rhetorician, and polemicist rather than a significant political theorist. This article takes the philosophical content of Paine's thought seriously and argues that his account of property rights constitutes a distinct contribution to theoretical debates on the subject. Drawing on Paine's Agrarian Justice and other writings, this article shows that his theory of property defends a libertarian concern with private ownership that contains within its logic an egalitarian commitment to the redistribution of resources. Paine's justification of property is distinct from that of various other important figures in the history of ideas (including Grotius, Pufendorf, and Locke) and represents his simultaneous commitment to foundational liberal values of individual freedom and moral equality.

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Loyalist Propaganda and the Scandalous Life of Tom Paine: ‘Hypocritical Monster!’

Cited by 3 publications

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Thomas Paine and the Idea of Human Rights

Thomas Paine and the Idea of Human Rights

Cosmopolitanism and the rights of nations

Liberty, Equality, and the Boundaries of Ownership: Thomas Paine's Theory of Property Rights

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