Understanding Human Dignity
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; Vol. 192;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 November 2014
- ISBN 9780197265826
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages782 pages
- Size 234x156x41 mm
- Weight 1166 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The concept of 'human dignity' has become central to politics, law and theology but is little understood. This book presents a wide-ranging collection of edited essays from specialists in law, theology, politics and history and seeks to define the main areas of current debates about the concept in these disciplines.
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Understanding Human Dignity aims to help the reader make sense of current debates about the meaning and implications of the idea of human dignity. The concept of human dignity has probably never been so omnipresent in everyday speech, or so deeply embedded in political and legal discourse. In debates on torture, abortion, same-sex marriage, and welfare reform, appeals to dignity are seldom hard to find. The concept of dignity is not only a prominent feature of political debate, but also, and increasingly, of legal argument. Indeed, courts tell us that human dignity is the foundation of all human rights. But the more important it is, the more contested it seems to have become. There has, as a result, been an extraordinary explosion of scholarly writing about the concept of human dignity in law, political philosophy, and theology. This book aims to reflect on these intra-disciplinary debates about dignity in law, philosophy, history, politics, and theology, through a series of edited essays from specialists in these fields, explored the contested concept in its full richness and complexity.
The genesis of this truly remarkable collection of essays and papers ... [draws] together a stellar, multidisciplinary group including historians, legal academics, judges, political scientists, theologians and philosophers, to discuss the concept of human dignity from their various disciplinary perspectives ... It is that interdisciplinary flavour which gives the book its greatest strength
Table of Contents:
In Pursuit of Human Dignity: an introduction to current debates
Part I: Historical perspectives
Dignit--/ Dignidade: Organizing Against Threats to Dignity in Societies After Slavery
W--rde des Menschen: Restoring Human Dignity in Post-Nazi Germany
The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity
Constructing the Meaning of Human Dignity: Four Questions
Human Dignity: Experience and History, Practical Reason and Faith
Part II: Dignity critiques
Dignity: the Case Against
Socio-economic rights, basic needs and human dignity: A perspective from law's front line
The Triple Dilemma of Human Dignity: a case study
The Concept of Human Dignity: Current usages, future discourses
Dignity Rather Than Rights
Part III: Theological perspectives
Dignity, Person and Imago Trinitatis
Human Dignity and the Image of God
Dignity as an Eschatological Concept
The Vanishing Absolute and the Deconsecrated God: a theological reflection on revelation, law and human dignity
A Christian Theological Account of Human Worth
Part IV: Philosophical perspectives
Human Dignity as a Foundation for Human Rights
In Defence of Human Dignity: Comments on Rosen and Kant
Citizenship and Dignity
Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Simply Trying to do the Right Thing
Part V: Judicial perspectives
Human Dignity: The constitutional value and the constitutional right
Dignity in a Legal Context: Dignity as absolute right
Human dignity in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
Part VI: Applications
Justifying Freedom of Religion: does dignity help?
Which Dignity? Which Religious Freedom?
From Imago Dei to Mutual Recognition: the Evolution of the Concept of Human Dignity in the Light of the Defence of Religious Freedom
A Communion in Good Living': Human Dignity and Religious Liberty beyond the Overlapping Consensus
Dignity and Disgrace: Moral Citizenship and Constitutional Protection
The Dignity of Marriage
Response to Tollefsen and Cameron
Dignity and the Duty to Protect Unborn Life
Is dignity language useful in bioethical discussion of assisted suicide and abortion?
Dignity, Choice, and Circumstances
Human dignity, interiority, and poverty
Dignity as Perception: Recognition of the Human Individual and the Individual Animal in Legal Thought
Part VII: Ways forward?
The good sense of dignity - six antidotes to dignity fatigue in ethics and law
Human Rights, Human Dignity, and Human Experience
Discourses of Dignity
Dignified Disciplinarity: Towards a Transdisciplinary Understanding of Human Dignity
