Abstract

This Critical Notice of Community and Collective Rights: A Theoretical Framework for Rights Held by Groups, has two parts. In the first part, I provide a detailed summary of the considerations Dwight Newman maintains will determine whether a particular group is a legitimate rights-holding collectivity. In the second part, I argue that his understanding of autonomy as one of a set of several significant and competing morally relevant values, combined with his reliance on that understanding of autonomy to describe and defend his theoretical framework, suggest it is not an acceptable or useful framework for Kantians