A Medieval View of Human Dignity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4456530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard C Dales (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 557 |
| Publication date | 1977-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2708687 |
| OpenAlex | W2314437873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
On the views of human dignity held by a society, whether consciously or unconsciously, depend many other matters of basic importance. Such matters include not only the more obvious questions of how a man behaves, or should behave, toward members of his own and other groups but also his relationship to his material environment. the value he places on different types of human activity (whether he should seek or scorn wealth and fame, be a warrior or man of peace, prize the active or contemplative life), and the kinds of responsibilities he assumes. As far back as written records give us any knowledge, man seems to have considered himself a special kind of being. One of his more worthy and interesting intellectual activities has been his attempt to investigate the nature and moral basis of human worth. The western
Art · Dignity · Political science · Law · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Le corps et l'autorité
In Defense of the Dignity of Being Human
Utworzenie kategorii godności człowieka (dignitas hominis) przez Hieronima ze Strydonu
Perceptions of Dignity, Attachment to God, and Mental Health in a National US Sample
Security and Privacy
Dignity's Gauntlet
A taxonomy of dignity
The Concept of Dignity in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Dignity and health
The European context of sixteenth-century Prussian humanism
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1984 - 2023 (40) |
| Highly cited | No |