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Full Idea
Personally I regard allegiance, in the manner of Hegel, as prior to the recognition of individual rights.
Gist of Idea
Allegiance is prior to the recognition of individual rights
Source
Roger Scruton (Short History of Modern Philosophy [1981], Bibliog)
Book Ref
Scruton,Roger: 'A Short History of Modern Philosophy' [ARK 1985], p.291
A Reaction
Scruton notoriously generates rather right-wing views from this basis, but it is also the basis of communitarianism, which can take a softer form. It seems to me self-evident that rights cannot be the prime concept in a society. What society?