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."--
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Oxford philosophical concepts
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York
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2017
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9780199386000
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408 pagina's
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Introduction / Remy Debes ; Dignity in Homer and Classical Greece / Patrice Rankine. - Dignity in Roman and Stoic / Thought Miriam Griffin. - Dignity in Confucian and Buddhist Thought / David Wong. - Dignity After the Fall / Bonnie Kent . - Islamic Conceptions of Dignity: Historical Trajectories and Paradigms / Mustafa Shah . - Dignity, Vile Bodies and Nakedness: Giovanni Pico and Giannozzo / Manetti Brian Copenhaver . - Portraiture, Social Positioning, and Displays of Dignity in Early Modern London / Edward Town. - Equal Dignity and Rights / Stephen Darwall. - Human Dignity Before Kant: Denis Diderot's Passionate Person / Remy Debes. - Dignity: Kant's Revolutionary Conception / Oliver Sensen. - Bourgeois Dignity: Making the Self-Made Man / Christine Henderson. - Taking refuge from history in morality: Marx, Morality, and Dignity /Somogy Varga.- Universalizing Dignity in the Nineteenth Century / Mikka LaVaque-Manty. - A Time For Dignity / Charles Mills. - Why Bioethics isn't Ready for Human Dignity /Marcus Düwell. - Sympathy and Dignity in Early Africana Philosophy / Bernie Boxill. - Death and Dignity in American Law / Emma Kaufman
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