The Dignity of Humanity

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ID23214344
AuthorsRalf M Bader (0000-0002-2619-1437, corresponding author)
Year2023
Pages153-180
Publication date2023-02-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueRethinking the Value of Humanity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780197539361.003.0007
OpenAlexW4317367693
ISBN9780197539361
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited12

This chapter argues that the normative significance of humanity is not to be understood in axiological terms (and that it is hence somewhat misleading to speak of the “value of humanity”) but is instead to be construed in distinctly deontological terms (and that it is accordingly preferable to speak of the “status of humanity”). It argues, in particular, that humanity has dignity insofar as humanity is the ground of being a member of the domain over which maxims have to be universalizable. Since the domain of universalization would be empty if there should not be anything having dignity, humanity classifies as the ground of the categorical imperative.

Categorical imperative · Dignity · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanity · Morality · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Universalization · Value (mathematics) · Law · Mathematics · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Social Psychology

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