Dignity: a history

In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to human dignity. Dignity refers to the fundamental moral worth or statu supposedly belonging to all persons equally. But this is relatively new. In this volume, leading scholars across...

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Weitere Verfasser: Debes, Remy (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2017
Schriftenreihe:Oxford philosophical concepts
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Zusammenfassung:In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to human dignity. Dignity refers to the fundamental moral worth or statu supposedly belonging to all persons equally. But this is relatively new. In this volume, leading scholars across a range of disciplines attempt to clarify the variegated and murky history of 'dignity,' and explain how it arrived it is current and historically unusual meaning
Beschreibung:Previously issued in print: 2017
ISBN:9780199386024
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199385997.001.0001