Dignity and Rank
In memory of Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4180702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeremy Waldron (0000-0003-4083-1119, New York Law School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 201-237 |
| Publication date | 2007-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003975607000343 |
| OpenAlex | W2110468687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 10 |
This paper considers the meaning conveyed by the term "dignity" in human rights discourse. It considers various ambiguities associated with the term (e.g. Does it describe the content or the ground of certain rights?) as well as alternative accounts of the kind of meaning that "dignity" has (descriptive or evaluative, technical or ordinary language). The second part of the paper argues that the distinctive contribution that "dignity" makes to human rights discourse is associated, paradoxically, with the idea of rank: once associated with hierarchical differentiations of rank and status, "dignity" now conveys the idea that all human persons belong to the same rank and that, that rank is a very high one indeed, in many ways as high as what were formerly regarded as ranks of nobility
Dignity · Epistemology · Human rights · Meaning (existential) · Nobility · Political science · Politics · Rank (graph theory) · Sociology · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Postmodernism in Literature and Education
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| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,44 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |