Perspectives on Human Dignity: A Conversation

✍ Scribed by Jeff Malpas, Norelle Lickiss (auth.), Jeff Malpas, Norelle Lickiss (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 237
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The idea of human dignity is central to any reflection on the nature of human worth, and has become a key concept in international and national law, in medical ethics, and in much philosophical and political theory. However, the idea is a complex one that also takes on many different forms. This collection explores the idea of human dignity as it arises within these many different domains, opening up the possibility of a multidisciplinary conversation that illuminates the concept itself, as well as the idea of the human to which it stands in an essential relation. The book is not only an intriguing and stimulating exploration of human dignity from a range of perspectives, but also provides an important resource for those who wish to take the exploration further.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction to a Conversation....Pages 1-5
Human Dignity and Human Worth....Pages 9-18
Human Dignity and Human Being....Pages 19-25
On Human Dignity: Fragments of an Exploration....Pages 27-41
Two Conceptions of Dignity: Honour and Self-Determination....Pages 43-58
Human Dignity and Charity....Pages 59-72
Human Dignity: Functions and Meanings....Pages 73-92
A Brief History of Human Dignity: Idea and Application....Pages 93-105
A Journey Towards Understanding: True and False Dignity....Pages 109-118
The Question of Dignity: Doubts and Loves and a Whisper from Where the Ruined House Once Stood....Pages 119-126
Religion and Dignity: Assent and Dissent....Pages 127-134
Giving the Past Its Dignity....Pages 135-139
Dignity and Indignity....Pages 141-149
Human Dignity and the Law....Pages 151-156
On the International Legal Aspects of Human Dignity....Pages 157-168
Doing Justice to Dignity in the Criminal Law....Pages 169-182
Human Dignity: The New Phase in International Law....Pages 183-186
Dignity and Health....Pages 187-191
Human Dignity: The Perspective of a Gynaecological Oncologist....Pages 193-197
The Social Origins of Dignity in Medical Care at the End of Life....Pages 199-207
Dying with Dignity: The Story Reveals Its Meaning....Pages 209-223
Back Matter....Pages 225-239

✦ Subjects

Ethics; Philosophy of Man; Humanities, general; Law Theory/Law Philosophy; Medicine/Public Health, general

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