Collective Rights?

Abstract

The question addressed in this paper is whether there are any collective rights. I am inclined to answer this in the negative; but the main challenge is to provide a reasonably clear sense to the notion of collective rights. My negative answer will then be defended from a general viewpoint utilizing what we may call a kind of ‘individualism’. Some are inclined these days to reject a priori anything with that label. I shall have something to say later on that inclination. Individualism, as I shall explain, by no means implies that there are no group rights in any sense that may reasonably be given to that term. Very much the contrary. A careful explication is needed.

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