Group Rights as Human Rights

Released on by Neus Torbisco Casals
preview-18

  • Group Rights as Human Rights Book Detail

  • Author : Neus Torbisco Casals
  • Release Date : 2006-06-30
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Genre : Law
  • Pages : 278
  • ISBN 13 : 1402042094
  • File Size : 33,33 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Group Rights as Human Rights by Neus Torbisco Casals PDF Summary

Book Description: Liberal theories have long insisted that cultural diversity in democratic societies can be accommodated through classical liberal tools, in particular through individual rights, and they have often rejected the claims of cultural minorities for group rights as illiberal. Group Rights as Human Rights argues that such a rejection is misguided. Based on a thorough analysis of the concept of group rights, it proposes to overcome the dominant dichotomy between "individual" human rights and "collective" group rights by recognizing that group rights also serve individual interests. It also challenges the claim that group rights, so understood, conflict with the liberal principle of neutrality; on the contrary, these rights help realize the neutrality ideal as they counter cultural biases that exist in Western states. Group rights deserve to be classified as human rights because they respond to fundamental, and morally important, human interests. Reading the theories of Will Kymlicka and Charles Taylor as complementary rather than opposed, Group Rights as Human Rights sees group rights as anchored both in the value of cultural belonging for the development of individual autonomy and in each person’s need for a recognition of her identity. This double foundation has important consequences for the scope of group rights: it highlights their potential not only in dealing with national minorities but also with immigrant groups; and it allows to determine how far such rights should also benefit illiberal groups. Participation, not intervention, should here be the guiding principle if group rights are to realize the liberal promise.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Group Rights as Human Rights books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Group Rights as Human Rights

Group Rights as Human Rights

File Size : 51,51 MB
Total View : 6947 Views
DOWNLOAD

Liberal theories have long insisted that cultural diversity in democratic societies can be accommodated through classical liberal tools, in particular through i

Cultural Rights as Collective Rights

Cultural Rights as Collective Rights

File Size : 5,5 MB
Total View : 8317 Views
DOWNLOAD

Collective cultural rights are commonly perceived as the most neglected or least developed category of human rights. Cultural Rights as Collective Rights – An

A Dialogical Concept of Minority Rights

A Dialogical Concept of Minority Rights

File Size : 93,93 MB
Total View : 1592 Views
DOWNLOAD

In A Dialogical Concept of Minority Rights, Hanna H. Wei demonstrates that a more plausible and realistic concept of minority rights should consist of not only