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

Moralno-etički aspekti utemeljenja multikulturalizma kod Willa Kymlicke
The Moral-Ethical Aspects of Multiculturalism’s Foundations by Will Kymlicka

Author(s): Tomislav Žigmanov
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: Will Kymlicka; theoretical foundation of the rights of minorities; politics of multiculturalism; ethnocultural diversity; moral-ethical aspects of multiculturalism

Summary/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 realisation of these rights are most often labelled 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 ethnocultural diversity in, first and foremost, modern 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.

  • Issue Year: 24/2004
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 163-171
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Croatian