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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.
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?
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
Sarah Buss (ed.), Nandi Theunissen (ed.).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2023