HREQ 1880 Chapter Notes - Chapter journl 10: Individual And Group Rights
15 Dec 2021
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The canadian government introduced the canadian charter of rights and freedoms, and its provisions were deemed progressive and beneficial for all canadian citizens, but especially for native indians. Charter has been severely criticized, but its most severe critics are native indians. Western-liberal theory of man and society is an aggregate of individuals, each with his self-interest. The state is an artificial creation based on collective agreement. Liberal political theory is a form of individualism that argues that individuals are morally superior to any group. Rousseau and hobbes believed that individual rights should take precedence over group rights and claims and that there should be no middle ground between the individual and the state. North american indians conceived society as cosmocentric rather than homocentric, and the individual as subordinate to the whole. In the cosmocentric perspective, all life has a soul or spirit. Social interaction involves the reciprocal exchange of human qualities.
