Philosophy 2801F/G Chapter Notes -Individual And Group Rights, Moral Rights, Legal Personality

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Group rights and group oppression peter jones. Has regarded the proposition that groups can hold rights with a mixture of scepticism and suspicion. Revival stemmed from a resigned acceptance that some longstanding and widely espoused rights. New worries about the fate of ethnic and cultural minorities an from doubts about whether the concern and respect due to those minorities can be adequately secured. What is fundamentally important for people relates to identities that they can possess and to practises in which they can engage only in association with others. Agreement: a right is a group right only if it is a right held by a group rather than by its members severally. A right is a group right only if it is a right held by a group. Relating a right to a characteristic that individuals share with others does not transform it into a group right.

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