 | Jeremy Bentham - Constitutional law - 1843 - 618 pages
...that which cannot be destroyed cannot require anything to preserve it from destruction. Natural riyhts is simple nonsense : natural and imprescriptible rights,...these pretended natural rights is given, and those are se expressed as to present to view legal rights. And of these rights, whatever they are, there is not,... | |
 | Religion - 1890 - 1460 pages
...what is artificial. " Natural rights," exclaims Bentham, criticising the French manifesto of 1789, " is simple nonsense : natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, — nonsense upon stilts ; " and he goes on to argue in the well-known strain, that there are no rights but acquired rights,... | |
 | William Wallace - Ethics - 1898 - 628 pages
...insurrection at all times against every government whatsoever/ Bentham starts from the principle that 'natural rights is simple nonsense : natural and imprescriptible...rights, rhetorical nonsense — nonsense upon stilts/ ' A reason for wishing that a certain right were established is not that right/ ' Right, the substantive... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1914 - 606 pages
...crudities and confusions of the latter document. All rights, in his view, are the creation of law; "natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible...rights, rhetorical nonsense, — nonsense upon stilts." Yet the difference between Bentham's theory and that of continental and American revolutionists was... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1914 - 542 pages
...crudities and confusions of the latter document. All rights, in his view, are the creation of law ; * natural rights is simple nonsense : natural and imprescriptible...rights, rhetorical nonsense, — nonsense upon stilts/ Yet the difference between Bentham's theory and that of continental and American revolutionists was... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1914 - 552 pages
...crudities and confusions of the latter document. All rights, in his view, are the creation of law ; ' natural rights is simple nonsense : natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, — nonsense upon stilte.' Yet the difference between Bentham's theory and that of continental and American revolutionists... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - Philosophy, English - 1920 - 418 pages
...crudities and confusions of the latter document. All rights, in his view, are the creation of law; " natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible...rights, rhetorical nonsense — nonsense upon stilts." Yet the difference between Bentham's theory and that of continental and American revolutionists was... | |
 | 1994 - 412 pages
...crudities and confusions of the latter document. All rights, in his view, are the creation of law; " natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible...rights, rhetorical nonsense — nonsense upon stilts." Yet the difference between Bentham's theory and that of continental and American revolutionists was... | |
 | John Dunn - History - 1979 - 156 pages
...interpretation is thus vividly disputed. For a balanced account see Ryan, /. S. Mill, cap. 5 and esp. p. 132. 58 'Natural rights is simple nonsense — natural and...rights, rhetorical nonsense — nonsense upon stilts.' The phrase comes from Bentham's critique of the 1791 Declaration of Rights (Anarchical Fallacies being... | |
 | Robert N. Wennberg - Family & Relationships - 1985 - 200 pages
...notion of moral rights to be conceptually problematic. They agree with Jeremy Bentham's conclusion that "Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible...rights, rhetorical nonsense — nonsense upon stilts." Many operating within the Judeo-Christian tradition are also unreceptive to the notion that what makes... | |
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Natural rights is simple nonsense : natural and imprescriptible rights' rhetorical nonsense, — nonsense upon stilts. 
