Confucianism Versus Liberalism Over Minority Rights: A Critical Response to Will Kymlicka

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Baogang He
Keyword(s):  
Minority Rights ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
Will Kymlicka

A critical response to Will Kymlicka´s view of multiculturalism

Human Affairs ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Anwarullah Bhuiyan
Keyword(s):  
Minority Rights ◽  
Main Line ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
Will Kymlicka ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Minority Cultures

AbstractThe objective of this article is to consider how multiculturalism, minority rights, and nationbuilding have been defended by Will Kymlicka. For this purpose, I will first attempt to spell out the answers to the following questions: is it possible to defend minority rights in a liberal state? What is the problem regarding this defence of national minorities? Does anybody benefit from minority rights within a nationbuilding process? In order to find out the answer to these questions, I will first introduce the main line of thought found in Will Kymlicka’s views on the defence of the rights of national minorities, the nationbuilding process, and multiculturalism. Later, I will reassess the views of Kymlicka in finding the ways to defend national minorities with the aim of providing support to the minority cultures.

Multiculturalism, Identity, and Minority Rights: Will Kymlicka and the Concept of Special Rights

1999 ◽  
pp. 92-107
Author(s):  
Beth J. Singer
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
Cultural Community ◽  
Will Kymlicka ◽  
Cultural Minorities ◽  
The World ◽  
Indigenous Minorities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Special Rights

This chapter focuses on the arguments of the Canadian philosopher Will Kymlicka for “special rights” designed to protect indigenous minorities and their cultures. Kymlicka rests his argument for the rights of cultural minorities on the fact that membership in a cultural community is “an important good for the individual.” He finds this good to be, in the first place, a function of the relation between membership in cultural communities and personal identity. However, he seems to be thinking of identity more as a matter of “identifying with” than as consisting in the traits by which a person can be identified and recognized. This identity would include, in addition to such traits as that person's appearance and voice, the characteristic ways in which she or he deals with the world and with other people. Identity in this sense can include having a sense of belonging to a cultural community.

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