Understanding human dignity /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: British Academy
Other Authors: McCrudden, Christopher (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Proceedings of the British Academy ; 192.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Chris McCrudden: In Pursuit of Human Dignity: an introduction to current debates
  • Part I: Historical perspectives (Rebecca J. Scott: Dignité/ Dignidade: Organizing Against Threats to Dignity in Societies After Slavery ; Christopher Goos: Würde des Menschen: Restoring Human Dignity in Post-Nazi Germany ; Samuel Moyn: The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity ; Catherine Dupré: Constructing the Meaning of Human Dignity: Four Questions ; David Hollenbach: Human Dignity: Experience and History, Practical Reason and Faith).
  • Part II: Dignity critiques (Michael Rosen: Dignity: the Case Against ; Connor Gearty FBA: Socio-economic rights, basic needs and human dignity: A perspective from law's front line ; Christoph Möllers: The Triple Dilemma of Human Dignity: a case study ; John Milbank: Dignity Rather Than Rights).
  • Part III: Theological perspectives (James Hanvey: Dignity, Person and Imago Trinitatis ; Janet Soskice: Human Dignity and the Image of God ; David Walsh: Dignity as an Eschatological Concept ; Tina Beattie: The Vanishing Absolute and the Deconsecrated God: a theological reflection on revelation, law and human dignity ; David P. Gushee: A Christian Theological Account of Human Worth).
  • Part IV: Philosophical perspectives (John Tasioulas: Human Dignity and the Foundations for Human Rights ; Thomas Hill: In Defence of Human Dignity: Comments on Rosen and Kant ; Jeremy Waldron FBA: Citizenship and Dignity ; Roger Brownsword: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Simply Trying to do the Right Thing)
  • Part V: Judicial perspectives (Aharon Barak: Human Dignity: The constitutional value and the constitutional right
  • Dieter Grimm: Dignity in a Legal Context: Dignity as absolute right
  • Jean-Paul Costa: Human dignity in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights).
  • Part VI: Applications (Julian Rivers: Justifying Freedom of Religion: does dignity help?
  • Patrick Riordan: Which Dignity? Which Religious Freedom?
  • Sergio Dellavalle: From Imago Dei to Mutual Recognition: the Evolution of the Concept of Human Dignity in the Light of the Defence of Religious Freedom
  • Joel Harrison: A Communion in Good Living': Human Dignity and Religious Liberty beyond the Overlapping Consensus
  • Edwin Cameron: Dignity and Disgrace: Moral Citizenship and Constitutional Protection
  • Christopher Tollefsen: The Dignity of Marriage
  • Robert P. George: Response to Tollefsen and Cameron
  • Reva Siegal: Dignity and the Duty to Protect Unborn life
  • David A. Jones: Is dignity language useful in bioethical discussion of assisted suicide and abortion?
  • Denise Réaume: Dignity, Choice, and Circumstances
  • Clemens Sedmak: Human dignity, interiority, and poverty
  • Joseph Vining: Dignity as Perception: Recognition of the Human Individual and the Individual Animal in Legal Thought)
  • Part VII: Ways forward? (Matthias Mahlmann: The good sense of dignity
  • six antidotes to dignity fatigue in ethics and law
  • Paolo Carozza: Human Rights, Human Dignity, and Human Experience
  • Gerald L. Neuman: Discourses of Dignity
  • Alexandra Kemmerer: Dignified Disciplinarity: Towards a Transdisciplinary Understanding of Human Dignity).