Balogh Artúr és a kisebbségi jogok liberális igazolása
Balogh Artúr and the Liberal Grounding of Minority Rights

Summary/Abstract: My presentation is both theoretical and historical in its purpose. My aim isn’t just an accurate reconstruction of Balogh Artur’s theory about minority rights, but also to answer a theoretical question: is there a liberal grounding for minority rights even conceivable? Balogh Artúr had an idea or a proposal pointing in that direction: he perceived the minority rights as necessary “amendments” to the fundamental human rights and thought that they are based in the same way on human dignity. But according to my view the logical connection between human rights and minority rights couldn’t be a deductive one and minority rights couldn’t be based simply on the concept of human dignity. Minority rights are the recognition of those particular needs which emerge from the national identity of each human being, whilst the human dignity is a moral or a metaphysical quality of all human beings. And any attempt to deduce particular needs from universal qualities will raise always logical and philosophical dilemmas.

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