DOI: 10.7256/2454-0684.2017.4.22400

Abstract: This article examines the question of the conflict of rights, emerging in collision of rights of the minorities and separate members of the group. The author underlines the importance of threat of discrimination of minorities within the minorities. The work analyzes the efficiency and purposefulness of application of the dominant approach towards resolution of problems associates with the rights of minorities. Special attention is given to the role of identity of the participants of conflict. The main conclusion of the conducted research lies in acknowledgement of the necessity of change of the dominant paradigm in discord within the minorities. The prevailing approach cannot offer the efficient solution due to considering them as the implacable collision of equal rights. Approach susceptible to differences, will underline the importance of people’s identity, which in turn, can defuse the imminent conflict.  

DOI: 10.7256/2409-7144.2017.3.20716

Abstract: The subject of this research is Charles Taylor’s “Politics of Recognition”, as well as the purpose of its realization in the context of modern ethnocultural conflicts. The author reveals the question about the impact of modernity upon the transformation of identity, as well as covers the problem of dialogue between the nature and human alongside the level of cultural influence upon the development of people’s identity. Possibility of finding balance between the demand in universal equality and recognition of differences in the modern liberal democratic states is being reviewed. The article also highlights the notion of “politics of recognition” in its connection to the “politics of universalism” and distinction of individuals. In modern world, the efficiency of the policy of multiculturalism conducted throughout the recent decades in Europe, is placed in doubt. As a result, the theoretical constructs of C. Taylor, as a thinker who significantly affected the development of the theory of multiculturalism, are also subject to criticism. The author considers the works of Canadian philosopher effective namely with regards to the ethnocultural minorities that are the representatives of one kindred culture or in league for a prolonged period of time. Thus, the application of Taylor’s works, in resolution of the modern migration crisis in Europe with significant growth of the number of migrants who differ from the European culture, is suggested to consider as inefficient. The results of the “politics of recognition” under such circumstances will significantly differ from those proposed by C. Taylor in his theoretical constructs.