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The Nature of Dignity
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2010
Summary
The Nature of Dignity is a highly interdisciplinary work of philosophy that focuses primarily on the form of dignity (or nobility of demeanor) that individuals exhibit to varying degrees, rather than the form of dignity that we tend to presume we always already possess simply by virtue of being human. The book contends that the Enlightenment assumptions that have traditionally been appealed to in elucidating our conceptions of human dignity are no longer tenable_most importantly because of what we know about evolutionary biology, but also in light of certain dominant strains in modern political-economic theory. The book argues that, nonetheless, dignity is a value to which we should remain committed, and offers a new set of conceptual underpinnings with which to replace the no longer tenable Enlightenment assumptions of Kant, Locke, and others on this subject.
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Edition
1/2010
Copyright Year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2407-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3264-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
316
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter One. Dignity in Eclipse No access Pages 1 - 42
Chapter Two. The Nature of Dignity: A Preliminary Inquiry No access Pages 43 - 82
Chapter Three. Implications of Human Finitude No access Pages 83 - 134
Chapter Four. Tragedy and Sacrifice No access Pages 135 - 176
Chapter Five. Dignity and the Struggle for Survival: Evolutionary Biology No access Pages 177 - 220
Chapter Six. Dignity and the Struggle for Survival: Political Economics No access Pages 221 - 264
Chapter Seven. Why Embrace the Regulative Ideals? No access Pages 265 - 304
