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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
The Individual, the State, and Ethnic Communities in Political Theory
Beteiligte:
Van Dyke, Vernon
Erschienen:
Project MUSE, 1977
Erschienen in:World Politics
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2307/2010001
ISSN:
0043-8871;
1086-3338
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Beschreibung:
<jats:p>Liberal political theory and contemporary expositions of human rights focus largely on the individual. Some liberal theorists even deny that ethnic communities and other groups, as collective entities, can have moral rights at all. The outlook is narrow and unfortunate. It reflects a preoccupation with domestic politics and a model of domestic politics that neglects the common fact of heterogeneity. It ignores widespread practices and urgent problems, for in many countries groups identified by race, language, or religion make moral claims, and their claims are sometimes conceded. It ignores the common view that nations or “peoples” have a (moral) right of self-determination, and it even leaves the state itself without justification. If theory is to give adequate guidance, its focus must be broadened. The question of group rights needs to be explored, and interrelationships between the rights of individuals, of groups, and of the state need to be clarified.</jats:p>