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Full Idea
The 'liberal culturalist' position is that minorities which share basic liberal principles nonetheless need minority rights.
Gist of Idea
'Culturalist' liberals say that even liberal individuals may need minority rights
Source
Will Kymlicka (Contemporary Political Philosophy (2nd edn) [2002], 8.2)
Book Ref
Kymlicka,Will: 'Contemporary Political Philosophy (2nd ed)' [OUP 2002], p.339
A Reaction
Disabled liberals are an obvious example. This strikes me as a promising version of liberalism, which accepts the criticisms of extreme individualism.
| 23380 | Some individuals can gain citizenship as part of a group, rather than as mere individuals [Kymlicka] |
| 23381 | The status hierarchy is independent of the economic hierarchy [Kymlicka] |
| 23383 | Some multiculturalists defended the rights of cohesive minorities against liberal individualism [Kymlicka] |
| 23384 | 'Culturalist' liberals say that even liberal individuals may need minority rights [Kymlicka] |
| 23385 | Multiculturalism may entail men dominating women in minority groups [Kymlicka] |
| 23386 | Liberals must prefer minority right which are freedoms, not restrictions [Kymlicka] |
| 23389 | Why shouldn't national minorities have their own right to nation-build? [Kymlicka] |
| 23391 | Multiculturalism is liberal if it challenges inequality, conservative if it emphasises common good [Kymlicka] |
| 20554 | Multiculturalism is a barrier to the whole state being a community [Swift] |
| 22841 | Identity multiculturalism emerges from communitarianism, preferring community to humanity [Charvet] |