On The Problem Of Human Dignity
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Human Dignity
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Author : George Kateb
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-01-03
Human Dignity written by George Kateb and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-03 with Philosophy categories.
We often speak of the dignity owed to a person. And dignity is a word that regularly appears in political speeches. Charters are promulgated in its name, and appeals to it are made when people all over the world struggle to achieve their rights. But what exactly is dignity? When one person physically assaults another, we feel the wrong demands immediate condemnation and legal sanction. Whereas when one person humiliates or thoughtlessly makes use of another, we recognize the wrong and hope for a remedy, but the social response is less clear. The injury itself may be hard to quantify. Given our concern with human dignity, it is odd that it has received comparatively little scrutiny. Here, George Kateb asks what human dignity is and why it matters for the claim to rights. He proposes that dignity is an “existential” value that pertains to the identity of a person as a human being. To injure or even to try to efface someone’s dignity is to treat that person as not human or less than human—as a thing or instrument or subhuman creature. Kateb does not limit the notion of dignity to individuals but extends it to the human species. The dignity of the human species rests on our uniqueness among all other species. In the book’s concluding section, he argues that despite the ravages we have inflicted on it, nature would be worse off without humanity. The supremely fitting task of humanity can be seen as a “stewardship” of nature. This secular defense of human dignity—the first book-length attempt of its kind—crowns the career of a distinguished political thinker.
Dignity
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Author : Remy Debes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-01
Dignity written by Remy Debes and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-01 with Philosophy categories.
In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to the idea of human dignity. In such contexts, the concept of dignity typically signifies something like the fundamental moral status belonging to all humans. Remarkably, however, it is only in the last century that this meaning of the term has become standardized. Before this, dignity was instead a concept associated with social status. Unfortunately, this transformation remains something of a mystery in existing scholarship. Exactly when and why did "dignity" change its meaning? And before this change, was it truly the case that we lacked a conception of human worth akin to the one that "dignity" now represents? In this volume, leading scholars across a range of disciplines attempt to answer such questions by clarifying the presently murky history of "dignity," from classical Greek thought through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment to the present day.
Health Rights And Dignity
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Author : Christian Erk
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Health Rights And Dignity written by Christian Erk and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Philosophy categories.
The idea that there is such a thing as a human right to health has become pervasive. It has not only been acknowledged by a variety of international law documents and thus entered the political realm but is also defended in academic circles. Yet, despite its prominence the human right to health remains something of a mystery - especially with respect to its philosophical underpinnings. Addressing this unfortunate and intellectually dangerous insufficiency, this book critically assesses the stipulation that health is a human right which - as international law holds - derives from the inherent dignity of the human person. Scrutinising the concepts underlying this stipulation (health, rights, dignity), it shall conclude that such right cannot be upheld from a philosophical perspective.
Human Dignity And The Future Of Global Institutions
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Author : Mark P. Lagon
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2014-08-20
Human Dignity And The Future Of Global Institutions written by Mark P. Lagon and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-20 with Political Science categories.
In Human Dignity and the Future of Global Institutions contributors examine how traditional and emerging institutions are already advancing human dignity, and identify strategies to make human dignity more central to the work of global institutions. They explore traditional state-created entities, hybrid institutions and faith-based organizations.
On The Problem Of Human Dignity
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Author : Mette Lebech
language : en
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
Release Date : 2009
On The Problem Of Human Dignity written by Mette Lebech and has been published by Königshausen & Neumann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Dignity categories.
Kantian Ethics Dignity And Perfection
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Author : Paul Formosa
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-10
Kantian Ethics Dignity And Perfection written by Paul Formosa and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-10 with Philosophy categories.
A clear and original perspective on Kantian ethics that focuses on the dignity, vulnerability and perfectibility of human rational agency.
Human Dignity Human Rights And Responsibility
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Author : Yechiel Michael Barilan
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2012-09-14
Human Dignity Human Rights And Responsibility written by Yechiel Michael Barilan and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-14 with Medical categories.
A novel and multidisciplinary exposition and theorization of human dignity and rights, brought to bear on current issues in bioethics and biolaw. “Human dignity” has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity. And yet human dignity is a term—like love, hope, and justice—that is intuitively grasped but never clearly defined. Some ethicists and bioethicists dismiss it; other thinkers point to its use in the service of particular ideologies. In this book, Michael Barilan offers an urgently needed, nonideological, and thorough conceptual clarification of human dignity and human rights, relating these ideas to current issues in ethics, law, and bioethics. Combining social history, history of ideas, moral theology, applied ethics, and political theory, Barilan tells the story of human dignity as a background moral ethos to human rights. After setting the problem in its scholarly context, he offers a hermeneutics of the formative texts on Imago Dei; provides a philosophical explication of the value of human dignity and of vulnerability; presents a comprehensive theory of human rights from a natural, humanist perspective; explores issues of moral status; and examines the value of responsibility as a link between virtue ethics and human dignity and rights. Barilan accompanies his theoretical claim with numerous practical illustrations, linking his theory to such issues in bioethics as end-of-life care, cloning, abortion, torture, treatment of the mentally incapacitated, the right to health care, the human organ market, disability and notions of difference, and privacy, highlighting many relevant legal aspects in constitutional and humanitarian law.
Dignity Determination Trilogy 1
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Author : Lesli Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Lesli Richardson
Release Date : 2018-12-28
Dignity Determination Trilogy 1 written by Lesli Richardson and has been published by Lesli Richardson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-28 with Fiction categories.
(Book 1 in the Determination Trilogy) He wants it back… My name is Kevin Markos, former anchor for Full News Broadcasting. I say former, because an exhaustion- and frustration-fueled emotional on-air meltdown of apocalyptic proportions means my previously dignified reputation and successful career as a highly respected conservative TV news host and commentator lay in smoking, irreparable ruins. Only one person will hire me now, and it's the last person I want to work for—Democratic Senator ShaeLynn Samuels, who's determined to be the next president of the United States. My reluctance isn't because of her, but because of who's working for her: Christopher Bruunt, the head of her Secret Service detail. A college spring break trip I thought was safely hidden forever in my past, even if it never strayed far from my thoughts, now comes back to haunt me. But if I take this job and succeed, it could resurrect my career and put me at the right hand of the most powerful person in the United States. But how much am I personally willing to sacrifice to claw my way back to the top? Because Christopher never forgot that spring break, either. And he has a few agendas of his own. This MMF contemporary political romance features older main characters, second-chance love, an Alpha Secret Service agent, power exchange, pining, frenemies to lovers, a secret workplace romance at the highest levels of our nation's government, political intrigue, and a satisfying HEA. Book 1 of the Determination Trilogy, a standalone spin-off trilogy set in the world of the Governor Trilogy, the Devastation Trilogy, and others.
In Defense Of Human Dignity
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Author : Robert P. Kraynak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
In Defense Of Human Dignity written by Robert P. Kraynak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Medical categories.
Robert Kraynak And Glenn Tinder Contend that the major challenge of our time is to recover a true and authentic understanding of human dignity and to defend it against threats from modern civilization. In Defense of Human Dignity wrestles with the dilemma that contemporary society has developed a heightened sensitivity to the demands of human dignity while creating radically new dangers to humanity in the form of the totalitarian state, modern technology, genetic engineering, the practical ethics movement, and radical environmentalism. The inspiration for this volume is the publication twenty years ago of the Covey Lectures by Glenn Tinder under the title Against Fate, in which Tinder argued that the sanctity of every individual is the central moral intuition of the Western tradition.
Sanctity Of Life And Human Dignity
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Author : K. Bayertz
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1996-04-30
Sanctity Of Life And Human Dignity written by K. Bayertz and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-30 with Science categories.
`Sanctity of life' and `human dignity' are two bioethical concepts that play an important role in bioethical discussions. Despite their separate history and content, they have similar functions in these discussions. In many cases they are used to bring a difficult or controversial debate to an end. They serve as unquestionable cornerstones of morality, as rocks able to weather the storms of moral pluralism. This book provides the reader with analyses of these two concepts from different philosophical, professional and cultural points of view. Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity presents a comparative analysis of both concepts.