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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: possibility of respect
    sub title: human dignity and the ethics of difference
  name:
    name part: Debes, Remy
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 337 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: This book defends a radical new theory of respect against the backdrop of a critical analysis of Western claims to moral progress. Drawing from a wide range of typically marginalized voices both past and present and often working through real life reflections on the experience of disrespect, it demonstrates the ways that our existing ideas about respect, though inspiring, have misled our efforts to validate the equal human dignity of persons. We grow up being told that respecting persons requires focusing on the ways that all persons are alike in virtue of their equal capacity for agency, autonomy and rights. However, this book argues that sometimes respecting persons requires deemphasizing what they have in common with all other persons, in favor of what is different about them. According to this alternative theory, it is not a person's autonomy or rights that matter most, but their unique, individual perspective on the world. And the way we respect or recognize this perspective is by trying to understand it.
  table of contents: The story. ǂt What we know -- What we are missing -- The ethos of respect -- Status quo -- The red herring of rights -- The red herring of rights, take two -- Toward an ethics of difference -- A real history of respect -- Rise, passionate person -- The theory. Back on earth -- Understanding persons -- Respect as understanding -- The failure to misunderstand -- All the wrinkles -- Dignity needs no apology.
  note: Remy Debes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Dignity
  subject:
    topic: Respect
  classification: BJ1533.D45 D43 2025
  classification: 179.9
  identifier: 9780197829714
  identifier: 0197829716
  identifier: 9780197829745
  identifier: 9780197829738
  identifier: 2025034379
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250912
    record change date: 20260729155404.0
    record identifier: in00005678377