Philosophy of human rights uncompromising and any derogation from the principles a reason to rise up in arms. This was a problem because; The natural rights “Against which there can be no prescription; against these no agreements is binding” gave the revolutionaries the tools to destroy the very society that Burke believed afforded them with rights. In this way Burke thought the rights contained in the "Declaration" would lead to “the antagonist world of madness, discord, vice, confusion, and unavailing sorrow.” The 18th-century Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham criticised the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen" in his text "Anarchical Fallacies". He
The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham of an eventual 14); and the "Works". The "Works" volumes are not sequentially numbered. Those volumes which have been published to date are as follows: The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham is a series of volumes which, when complete, will form a definitive edition of the writings of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832). It includes texts which Bentham published (or which were published in his name) during his lifetime; and also the many texts which remained unpublished at his death, and which exist only in manuscript. The "Collected Works" is intended to