# Jeremy Bentham's Attack on Natural Rights

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/jeremy-benthams-attack-on-natural-rights>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** March 25, 2015

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George H. Smith discusses the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and why it so alarmed the defenders of natural rights.

[Originally published in essay form on June 26, 2012.](https://www.libertarianism.org/essays/excursions/jeremy-benthams-attack-natural-rights)

_Narrated by James Foster._