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Group Rights (group + right)

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Humanities and Social Sciences	50%

Selected Abstracts

Group Rights, Human Rights and Citizenship

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2 2002
David Miller
First page of article [source]

Human Genetics Studies: The Case for Group Rights

THE JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS, Issue 3 2007
Laura S. Underkuffler
In this essay, the author focuses on an underlying theoretical issue which she believes seriously affects our collective response to the idea of group rights in the genetic-control context. That issue is to what extent are our responses to claims of group rights hampered by our bringing to the table (consciously or unconsciously) a model which is structured to acknowledge only individual concerns? Put another way, to what extent are our objections to group rights in this context a product of our inability (or refusal) to imagine the idea of group rights, rather than the product of truly substantive concerns? [source]

GENOCIDE AND THE MORAL AGENCY OF ETHNIC GROUPS

METAPHILOSOPHY, Issue 3-4 2006
KAREN KOVACH
Abstract: Genocide is the deliberate destruction, in whole or in part, of a people. Typically, it is a crime that is committed by a people. In this essay, I propose an analysis of the concept of an ethnic identity group, which is, I argue, the concept of ethnicity at issue in many important discussions of group rights, group acts, and the moral responsibility of group members for the acts of the groups to which they belong. I develop the account of collective agency presupposed by this analysis and explore its implications for assessments of individual moral responsibility for genocide. I argue, further, that among other advantages over culturalist approaches to questions about group rights, the approach that follows from the concept of an ethnic identity group sheds light on the specific moral wrong of genocide. I reply to individualist objections to the idea that ethnic group membership may be morally significant and argue that morally adequate responses to genocide presuppose acknowledgment of the fact that groups act and are acted upon in morally significant ways. [source]