PHIL 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Will Kymlicka, Quebec Sovereignty Movement, Distinct Society

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2280
• Professor: Omid Shabani

Document Summary

Charles ta(cid:455)lo(cid:396): (cid:862)why do nations have to become states? (cid:863) Along with will kymlicka and james tully, taylor contributed to a discourse of minority rights that became knows as the canadian school of thought. What distinguishes ta(cid:455)lo(cid:396)"s contribution from kymlicka is that while kymlicka as a liberal theorist deems individual rights to be supreme, taylor as a communitarian insists in recognising the (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)al (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t of the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)e. His communitarian orientation is (cid:449)hat i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)s the te(cid:454)t, (cid:862)why do nations have to become. States? (cid:863) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:449)as (cid:449)(cid:396)itte(cid:374) du(cid:396)i(cid:374)g the ti(cid:373)e of referendum on sovereignty-association in quebec and makes a case for the province as a distinct society within a federalist canada. (cid:862)free people are self-go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g people. (cid:863) Taylor indicates that nationalism was not borne out of the value of self-government, it arose because of the withering away of local community, the decline of religious identification, which often by-passed nationality.