Collective Rights. A Western Foundational Perspective
Collective Rights. A Western Foundational Perspective

Summary/Abstract: For many thinkers, the historic-philosophical analysis of the birth and growth of human rights has identified the West with the interest and support for individual rights and the rest of the world with the primacy of collective rights. This paper is meant to form the counter-argument of this view, showing that that collective rights are not alien to the Western cultures. Final aim of this paper is to underline that if collective rights are not foreign to Western cultures, the whole human rights discourse -and the idea of human rights being acceptable everywhere- should be reconsidered, and specifically, beyond the dualism of individual versus collective rights.

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