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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Ways Worlds Could Be' and 'Short History of Modern Philosophy'

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24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights

5660	Allegiance is prior to the recognition of individual rights [Scruton]
	Full Idea: Personally I regard allegiance, in the manner of Hegel, as prior to the recognition of individual rights.
	From: Roger Scruton (Short History of Modern Philosophy [1981], Bibliog)
	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?