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Understanding human dignity

Christopher McCrudden (Editor)
The concept of 'human dignity' has become central to politics, law and theology but is little understood. This book presents a wide-ranging collection of edited essays from specialists in law, theology, politics and history and defines the main areas of current debates about the concept in these disciplines
Print Book, English, 2014
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014
Conference papers and proceedings
xxxvii, 741 pages ; 24 cm
9780197265826, 9780197265642, 0197265820, 0197265642
894609120
In pursuit of human dignity: an introduction to current debates / Christopher McCrudden
Dignité/dignidade: organizing against threats to dignity in societies after slavery / Rebecca J. Scott
Würde des Menschen: restoring human dignity in post-Nazi Germany / Christopher Goos
The secret history of constitutional dignity / Samuel Moyn
Constructing the meaning of human dignity: four questions / Catherine Dupré
Human dignity: experience and history, practical reason, and faith / David Hollenbach
Dignity: the case against / Michael Rosen
Socio-economic rights, basic needs and human dignity: a perspective from law's front line / Connor Gearty
The triple dilemma of human dignity: a case study / Christoph Möllers
Dignity rather than rights / John Milbank
Dignity, person and Imago Trinitatis / James Hanvey
Human dignity and the image of God / Janet Soskice
Dignity as an eschatological concept / David Walsh
The vanishing absolute and the deconsecrated God: a theological reflection on revelation, law and human dignity / Tina Beattie
A Christian theological account of human worth / David P. Gushee
Human dignity and the foundations for human rights / John Tasioulas
In defence of human dignity: comments on Rosen and Kant / Thomas E. Hill
Citizenship and dignity / Jeremy Waldron
Human dignity, human rights, and simply trying to do the right thing / Roger Brownsword
Human dignity: the constitutional value and the constitutional right / Aharon Barak
Dignity in a legal context: dignity as an absolute right / Dieter Grimm
Human dignity in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights / Jean-Paul Costa
Justifying freedom of religion: does dignity help? / Julian Rivers
Which dignity? Which religious freedom? / Patrick Riordan
From Imago Dei to mutual recognition: the evolution of the concept of human dignity in the light of the defence of religious freedom / Sergio Dellavalle
'A communion in good living': human dignity and religious liberty beyond the overlapping consensus / Joel Harrison
Dignity and disgrace: moral citizenship and constitutional protection / Edwin Cameron
The dignity of marriage / Christopher Tollefsen
Response to Tollefsen and Cameron / Robert P. George
Dignity and the duty to protect unborn life / Reva Siegel
Is dignity language useful in bioethical discussion of assisted suicide and abortion? / David A. Jones
Dignity, choice, and circumstances / Denise Réaume
Human dignity, interiority, and poverty / Clemens Sedmak
Dignity as perception: recognition of the human individual and the individual animal in legal thought / Joseph Vining
The good sense of dignity: six antidotes to dignity fatigue in ethics and law / Matthias Mahlmann
Human rights, human dignity, and human experience / Paolo G. Carozza
The concept of human dignity: current usages, future discourses / Bernhard Schlink
Discourses of dignity / Gerald L. Neuman
Dignified disciplinarity: towards a transdisciplinary understanding of human dignity / Alexandra Kemmerer
Originally published: 2013