The Value of Cultural Belonging

Expanding Kymlicka's Theory

Bibliographic Data

ID3890671
AuthorsJames W Nickel (University of Colorado System, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume33
Issue4
Pages635-642
Publication date1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDialogue (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0012217300010726
OpenAlexW2155170612
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited5

In his recent book, Liberalism, Community and Culture, Will Kymlicka defends collective rights for some minority groups-and particularly for indigenous peoples in North America-by trying to show that (1) secure cultural belonging is of great value, and (2) rights to protection and autonomy for minorities, including some collective rights, are justified by the special disadvantages some minorities face in enjoying secure cultural membership. Kymlicka defends these claims from within a liberal perspective that draws heavily on Rawls and Dworkin and that denies that groups are independent sources of moral claims. In this paper I am mainly concerned with how to defend the first of these claims, which I shall call the "Value Thesis." One reason for being interested in the justification of the Value Thesis is that some version of it is a key part of most arguments for minority and collective rights. Another reason is that the Value Thesis is important to communitarians who frequently base their claims about the importance of community on the value of belonging

Autonomy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept) · Human rights · Indigenous · Law and economics · Liberalism · Minority rights · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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