http://mises.org/Community/blogs/donny/archive/2008/04/03/is-there-a-right-to-culture.aspx[Cross-posted on the parent blog ] Last week I had a conversation with my thesis advisor, Dr. Harry Brighouse, in which we discussed an interesting idea which I think might prove important in one way or another, and which I think is worthy of elaborationenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://mises.org/Community/blogs/donny/archive/2008/04/03/is-there-a-right-to-culture.aspx#26095Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:20:26 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:26095Donny with an A<p>Well of course if you accept a very strict methodological individualism, any holistic notion is going to be problematic. &nbsp;But it doesn&#39;t seem completely incoherent to talk about the integrity and stability of a culture, and it does seem like that is what Nadia would be alluding to in her complaint. &nbsp;I don&#39;t think it&#39;s fair to say that Nadia&#39;s argument is fallacious, but perhaps one could say that its key elements are, in principle, reducible to statements about the individual members of her culture. &nbsp;If this were the case, it might be more difficult to sustain Nadia&#39;s having any rights, since it doesn&#39;t seem like she has any rights to other people. &nbsp;But I&#39;m not sure that the reductionist perspective really gives us everything we want here.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://mises.org/Community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=26095" width="1" height="1">http://mises.org/Community/blogs/donny/archive/2008/04/03/is-there-a-right-to-culture.aspx#25363Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:11:36 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:25363Brainpolice<p>Keep in mind that such holistic notions are fallacious if one adheres to methodological individualism.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://mises.org/Community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=25363" width="1" height="1">