本书是托马斯·潘恩的一部影响深远的著作,极具感染力地表达了民主共和主义的观念,驳斥了伯克(Edmund Burke)在《法国大革命之反思》中对法国大革命的抨击,以更为广阔的视野为背景,突出勾勒法国革命的划时代意义。该书曾被英国《电讯报》评为改变世界的十大著作之一,位列《资本论》之后。“天赋权利”是其政治法律思想体系的理论基础。 This book, a far-reaching book by Thomas Paine, captivated the notion of democratic republicanism and dismissed Edmund Burke’s attacks on the French Revolution in “Rethinking the French Revolution” A broader perspective as the background, highlighting the epoch-making significance of the French revolution. The book was Britain’s “Telegraph” as one of the world’s top ten books, after the “Capital”. “Natural rights ” is the theoretical basis of its political and legal system of thought.