The Port Macquarie Philosophy Forum has attracted a high profile guest speaker for its August event.
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It will be held at the Port City Bowling Club on Thursday August 23, 6pm to about 7.30pm.
Paul Patton is Scientia Professor of Philosophy at the University of NSW in Sydney.
He is the author of Deleuze and the Political (Routledge, 2000) and Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, Politics (Stanford, 2010), and co-editor – with Duncan Ivison and Will Sanders - of Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge, 2000).
He has published widely on Continental political philosophy and contemporary liberal political philosophy.
His talk title is: ‘Rights, Human Rights and Rights of Indigenous Peoples’
"After a brief survey of the emergence of human rights and Indigenous people’s rights in Australia and around the world, this talk will focus on the kinds of philosophical arguments that have been proposed in favor of specific rights for colonised Indigenous peoples in liberal democratic societies," Professor Patton said.
"One of the most important arguments in recent decades was developed by the Canadian philosopher Will Kymlicka, who relied on the equal right of all citizens to the good of cultural membership to argue for specific rights to protect minority cultures - including but not limited to Indigenous cultural groups.
"Another Canadian, James Tully, provides a different argument that appeals to those moments in the history of North American colonisation when the interactions between colonial and Indigenous peoples were just and fair.
"Tully refers to the norms implicit in those interactions in arguing for an inter-cultural constitutionalism based on the principles of recognition, consent and continuity.
"Finally, I will briefly outline my own argument based on the political liberalism of John Rawls for constitutional rights specific to Indigenous peoples," he said.
Professor Patton's recent publications relating to the rights of colonised indigenous peoples include ‘“The Lessons of History”: The Ideal of Treaty in Settler Colonial Societies,’ in Saliha Belmessous ed Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion 1600-1900, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, 243-269; and ‘Rawls and the Legitimacy of Australian Government,’ Australian Indigenous Law Review, 13:2, 2009, 59-69.
Entry is $10 or $5 pensioner concession. Email enquiries to philosophyforumpmq@outlook.com