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This view is defended from a feminist perspective with especial vigor by Susan Okin, for whom feminism and multiculturalism are ...

To the extent that cultural groups fail to meet them they deserve not toler- ation, much less protection, but condemnation. Wher ...

(Waldron 1992 ; on rectifying historical injustice see also Kukathas 2003 a; Ivison, this volume). For those who adopt the cosmo ...

(Nussbaum 1999 ). While she is a cosmopolitan, she is clearly not a liberal Jacobin (Levy 2004 ). In spite of their diVerences, ...

which are oppressive, particularly to the extent that group practice goes against the norms of the host society, which will have ...

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demands (Benhabib 2002 , 133 – 46 ; see also Valadez 2001 ). For Benhabib, consensus is achievable; and group secession from pub ...

concerned to emphasize the equality of all persons and groups, and therefore to ask how they might be included as participants w ...

obligation on the part of any of them to enter into moral association with the dominant society. A good society is, thus, one th ...

universalism, now regarding moral principles as the distillation of the ethical convictions of particular moral communities rath ...

Beitz,C. 1979 .Political Theory and International Relations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Benhabib,S. 2002 .The Cl ...

Nussbaum,M. 1992. Human functioning and social justice: in defense of Aristotel- ian essentialism.Political Theory, 20 ( 2 ): 20 ...

Walzer,M. 1981. Philosophy and democracy.Political Theory, 9 ( 3 ): 379 – 99. —— 1983 .Spheres of Justice: A Defence of Pluralis ...

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rights. 1 This and the following section give strong emphasis to the universal- ity of human rights, on the grounds that this is ...

limited capabilities. Even active protection may have nothing to do with a right (title) not to be executed. Rulers may, for exa ...

‘‘natural’’ limits of possibility, then implementing those rights will make real that previously ideal nature. Human rightsconst ...

peripheral to most theoretical discussions. (The principal exception is Gewirth 1982 , 1996 .) For example, rights are absent fr ...