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
Philosophical Radicals philosophical radicalism from the reproach of sectarian Benthamism”, J. S. Mill introduced new themes – the dangers of excessive centralisation; of the tyranny of the majority – which laid the broader foundations of British liberalism. And a New Liberalism would succeed to the formative role of the philosophical radicals. Philosophical Radicals The Philosophical Radicals were a philosophically-minded group of English political radicals in the nineteenth century inspired by Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) and James Mill (1773–1836). Individuals within this group included Francis Place (1771–1854), George Grote (1794–1871), Joseph Parkes (1796–1865), John Arthur Roebuck (1802–1879), Charles Buller (1806–1848), John Stuart Mill (1806–1873),