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The Moral-Ethical Aspects of Multiculturalism’s Foundations by Will Kymlicka

Tomislav Žigmanov


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Abstract

The liberal thinker Will Kymlicka was, most probably, amongst the first in the world to have attempted to reflect upon the question of the possibility and justifiability, as well as the possible validity, of the theoretical foundation of the rights of minorities within the framework of the liberal political-philosophical paradigm, in a comprehensive and theoretically consistent way, and from the perspective of the supporting ideological starting points of the political doctrine mentioned above. The concrete articulation and efforts regarding the realization of these rights are most often labeled as the politics of multiculturalism. In other words, Kymlicka is interested in theoretically coherent and morally justified answers to the complex questions introduced by the contextualisation of ethno-cultural diversity in, first and foremost, modem societies, and that from a perspective primarily defined by liberal political teachings. This paper attempts to examine whether or not, and in what way, any of this has been successful.

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Hrčak ID:

202951

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/202951

Publication date:

2.3.2004.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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