On Group Rights of Ethnical Communities as a Social Philosophical Issue
This article covers group rights as a social philosophical issue. The group rights are rights held by individuals within the specified group. The ethnical community as a primary bearer of the ethnic culture is considered a subject of the group rights. The author believes that these communities are of special value despite the globalization processes. It is shown that methodological individualism cannot consider communities to be a subject of law. The author suggests distinguishing concepts of “subject of law” and “subject of legal relations”. The subject of law is an ethnical community, and the subject of legal relations is an individual that considers himself to be a part of such a community.