Dignity
A History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7536341 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Remy Debes (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 416 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Dignity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199385997.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2808597825 |
| Open Library | OL28621458M |
| ISBN | 9780199385997 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
The concept of dignity typically brings to mind an idea of moral status that supposedly belongs to all humans equally, and which serves as the basis of human rights. But this moralized meaning of dignity is historically very young. Until the mid-nineteenth century, dignity suggested an idea about merit: it connoted elevated social rank, of the sort that marked nobility or ecclesiastic preferment. What explains this radical change in meaning? And before this change, did anything like the moralized concept of dignity exist, that is, before it was named by the term “dignity”? If so, exactly how old is the moralized concept of dignity? In this volume, leading scholars across a range of disciplines attempt to answer these questions by clarifying the presently murky history of “dignity,” from classical Greek thought through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment to the present day. In the process, four platitudes about the history of human dignity are undermined: (1) the Roman notion of dignitas is not the ancient starting point of our modern moralized notion; (2) neither the medieval Christian doctrine of imago Dei nor the renaissance speech of Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man , was a genuine locus classicus of dignity discussion; (3) Immanuel Kant is not the early modern proprietor of the concept; (4) the universalization of the concept of dignity in the postmodern world (ca. 1800–present) is not the result of its constitutional indoctrination by the “wise forefathers” of liberal states like America or France
Dignity · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Political science · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · 08.45 political philosophy · History
Direitos humanos e saúde
Communication in Dignity Since Early Antiquity
Morir con dignidad, pero ¿qué es la dignidad?
Conceptualizing human dignity as a political concept
The concept of dignity in Edmund Burke’s writings on the French revolution
AI Mimicry and Human Dignity
Subsidiarity as a Normative Political Concept
Dignity and bargaining power
Recognizing Resentment
Brevity
Anerkennung
Despotics
‘Seen’, ‘Respected’ and ‘Empowered’
Religious Meaning System, Humor Styles, and Sense of Self-Dignity in Polish Older Adults
Dignity is distinctively concerned with non-humiliation and social equality
In defense of the heart
Towards a political concept of dignity
The Warty conception of human rights
Energy and the social contract
Mary Wollstonecraft as the “Mother of Human Dignity”
Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE–300 CE
Human dignity in the Renaissance? Dignitas hominis and ‘spiritual counter-subjectivity’
On Human Dignity and Social Work
Deifying College
Kantian Dignity and its Difficulties
Measuring and Explaining a College Dignity Divide in America
Dignity and the Foundation of Human Rights
The Tempest and Black Natural Law
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |