Neutrality as a Basis for Minority Cultural Rights

This comment examines the idea of ‘neutrality of treatment’ that is at the heart of Alan Patten’s defense of minority cultural rights in Equal Recognition. The main issue I raise is whether neutrality of treatment can do without an ‘upstream’ or foundational commitment to neutrality of justification...

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Main Author: Andrew Lister
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Montréal 2015-06-01
Series:Les Ateliers de l’Ethique
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Online Access:http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1035334ar
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spelling doaj-16004a3c831f4287982a17cdc913c4322020-11-24T22:43:16ZengUniversité de MontréalLes Ateliers de l’Ethique1718-99771718-99772015-06-01102147156http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1035334arNeutrality as a Basis for Minority Cultural RightsAndrew Lister0Queen’s UniversityThis comment examines the idea of ‘neutrality of treatment’ that is at the heart of Alan Patten’s defense of minority cultural rights in Equal Recognition. The main issue I raise is whether neutrality of treatment can do without an ‘upstream’ or foundational commitment to neutrality of justification.http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1035334armulticulturalismneutrality
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title Neutrality as a Basis for Minority Cultural Rights
title_short Neutrality as a Basis for Minority Cultural Rights
title_full Neutrality as a Basis for Minority Cultural Rights
title_fullStr Neutrality as a Basis for Minority Cultural Rights
title_full_unstemmed Neutrality as a Basis for Minority Cultural Rights
title_sort neutrality as a basis for minority cultural rights
publisher Université de Montréal
series Les Ateliers de l’Ethique
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1718-9977
publishDate 2015-06-01
description This comment examines the idea of ‘neutrality of treatment’ that is at the heart of Alan Patten’s defense of minority cultural rights in Equal Recognition. The main issue I raise is whether neutrality of treatment can do without an ‘upstream’ or foundational commitment to neutrality of justification.
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