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  title info:
    title: Rethinking the value of humanity
  name:
    name part: Buss, Sarah
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Theunissen, L. Nandi
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (465 p.).
  abstract: It is widely agreed that to treat some human beings as less worthy of concern and respect than others is to lose sight of their humanity. But what does this moral blindness amount to? The essays in this volume offer a wide range of competing, yet overlapping, answers to this question. Some essays appeal to distinctively human capacities. Others argue that our obligations to one another are ultimately grounded in self-interest, or certain shared interests, or our natural sociability. This rich selection of proposals encourages us to rethink some of our own deepest assumptions about the moral si.
  table of contents: Cover -- Rethinking the Value of Humanity -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Decomposing Humanity -- 2. Do the Ancients See Value in Humanity? -- 3. Spinoza's Anti-​Humanism: Human Value and Dignity -- 4. Slavery, Freedom, and Human Value in Early Modern Philosophy -- 5. Valuing Humanity in "Common Life": Grotius and Pufendorf on Equal "Sociable" Dignity -- 6. The Dignity of Humanity -- 7. Great Beyond All Comparison -- 8. Fichte on the Value of Rational Agency -- 9. Explaining the Value of Human Beings -- 10. Are We of Equal Moral Worth?
  table of contents: 11. The Normative Significance of Humanity -- 12. Finding the Humean Value in Humean Humanity -- 13. Other People -- 14. Learning from Love: Reasoning, Respect, and the Value of a Person -- 15. The Invention of Value and the Value of Humanity -- 16. The Human Foundations of Our Political Ideals: An Essay on Gandhi's Political Radicalism -- Index
  note: Sarah Buss (ed.), Nandi Theunissen (ed.).
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Respect for persons
  subject:
    topic: Humanity
  subject:
    topic: Respect de la personne
  subject:
    topic: Humanité (Morale)
  subject:
    topic: Humanity
  subject:
    topic: Respect for persons
  subject:
    topic: Ethics & moral philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Society
  classification: BJ1533.R42 B87 2023
  classification: 179/.9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Rethinking the Value of Humanity
    name:
      name part: Buss, Sarah
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2023
  identifier: 9780197539385
  identifier: 0197539386
  identifier: 9780197539361
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  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 230107
    record change date: 20260318164923.0
    record identifier: in00005697677
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng