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Single Idea 20977
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights
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Full Idea
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense — nonsense upon stilts.
Gist of Idea
Natural rights are nonsense, and unspecified natural rights is nonsense on stilts
Source
Jeremy Bentham (Anarchical Fallacies: on the Declaration of Rights [1796])
A Reaction
If you want your opinion to be remembered, express it memorably! I take natural rights to be the basic principles and values which are obvious to almost everyone when they come for formulate legal rights (which are the only true rights).
The
12 ideas
from Jeremy Bentham
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20977
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Natural rights are nonsense, and unspecified natural rights is nonsense on stilts
[Bentham]
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21003
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Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary
[Bentham]
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5271
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Prejudice apart, push-pin has equal value with music and poetry
[Bentham]
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5901
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Is 'productive of happiness' the definition of 'right', or the cause of it?
[Ross on Bentham]
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5934
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Of Bentham's 'dimensions' of pleasure, only intensity and duration matter
[Ross on Bentham]
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3554
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Bentham thinks happiness is feeling good, but why use morality to achieve that?
[Annas on Bentham]
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3777
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Pleasure and pain control all human desires and duties
[Bentham]
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3778
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The community's interest is a sum of individual interests
[Bentham]
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3779
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Unnatural, when it means anything, means infrequent
[Bentham]
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3780
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We must judge a thing morally to know if it conforms to God's will
[Bentham]
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3781
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The value of pleasures and pains is their force
[Bentham]
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20280
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Large mature animals are more rational than babies. But all that really matters is - can they suffer?
[Bentham]
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