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Author:   Michael Rosen 

Dignity plays a central role in current thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptual precision with a broad historical background, Michael Rosen puts these controversies in context and offers a novel, constructive proposal.

Drawing on law, politics, religion, and culture, as well as philosophy, Rosen shows how modern conceptions of dignity inherit several distinct strands of meaning. This is why users of the word nowadays often talk past one another. The idea of dignity as the foundation for the universal entitlement to human rights represented the coming together after the Second World War of two extremely powerful traditions: Christian theology and Kantian philosophy. Not only is this idea of dignity as an “inner transcendental kernel” behind human rights problematic, Rosen argues, it has drawn attention away from a different, very important, sense of dignity: the right to be treated with dignity, that is, with proper respect.

 

Dignity its history and meaning First Harvard University Press Paperback 1st Table of contents:

1. “The Shibboleth of All Empty-Headed Moralists”
1. Humbug?
I
II. Cicero and After
III. Kant
IV. Grace and Dignity
V. Dignity and Equality
VI. Hierarchy
VII. Respect for Rights and the Right to Respect
2. The Legislation of Dignity
I. Dwarves with Dignity
II. Germany
III. The Kantian Background: The Formula of Humanity
IV. Catholicism and the Grundgesetz

V. Interpreting the Grundgesetz
VI. Daschner and the Air Safety Law
VII. Is There a Consistent Interpretation?
VIII. Voluntarism
IX. Conclusion
3. Duty to Humanity
I. Humanism
II. A Utilitarian Response
III. Externalism
IV. Non-Human Things May Be Intrinsically Good
V. Duty
VI. Kant
VII. Duty without Platonism

 

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