caa a22 4500 44535934X CHVBK 20180317142910.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10892-011-9103-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10892-011-9103-5 Appiah Kwame Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA aut "Group Rights” and Racial Affirmative Action [Elektronische Daten] [Kwame Appiah] This article argues against the view that affirmative action is wrong because it involves assigning group rights. First, affirmative action does not have to proceed by assigning rights at all. Second, there are, in fact, legitimate "group rights” both legal and moral; there are collective rights—which are exercised by groups—and membership rights—which are rights people have in virtue of group membership. Third, there are continuing harms that people suffer as blacks and claims to remediation for these harms can fairly treat the (social) property of being black as tracking the victims of those harms. Affirmative action motivated in this way aims to respond to individual wrongs; wrongs that individuals suffer, as it happens, in virtue of their membership in groups. Finally, the main right we have when we are being considered for jobs and places at colleges is that we be treated according to procedures that are morally defensible. Morally acceptable procedures sometimes take account of the fact that a person is a member of a certain social group. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Affirmative action nationallicence Collective rights nationallicence Diversity nationallicence Group rights nationallicence Harm nationallicence Identitarian harms nationallicence Identity nationallicence Membership rights nationallicence Probabilistic harms nationallicence Race nationallicence The Journal of Ethics Springer Netherlands 15/3(2011-09-01), 265-280 1382-4554 15:3<265 2011 15 10892 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-011-9103-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-011-9103-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Appiah Kwame Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Ethics Springer Netherlands 15/3(2011-09-01), 265-280 1382-4554 15:3<265 2011 15 10892 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer