Dignity : a history /
In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to human dignity. Dignity refers to the fundamental moral worth or status supposedly belonging to all persons equally. But this is relatively new. In this volume, leading scholars across...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford Univesity Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Oxford philosophical concepts.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to human dignity. Dignity refers to the fundamental moral worth or status supposedly belonging to all persons equally. But this is relatively new. In this volume, leading scholars across a range of disciplines attempt to clarify the variegated and murky history of ""dignity, "" and explain how it arrived it is current and historically unusual meaning. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 408 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199386024 0199386021 9780199386017 0199386013 9780190677541 0190677546 |