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245 04 The Cambridge handbook of human dignity :
|binterdisciplinary perspectives /|cedited by Marcus
Duwell, Jens Braarvig, Roger Brownsword, and Dietmar Mieth
; assisted by Naomi van Steenbergen and Dascha During.
263 1402
264 1 Cambridge :|bCambridge University Press,|c2014.
300 608 pages
336 text|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|2rdamedia
338 volume|2rdacarrier
505 0 Contents note: Introduction: 1. Human dignity from a legal
perspective; 2. Human dignity - concept, discussions,
philosophical perspectives; Part I. Origins of the Concept
in European History: 3. Meritocratic and civic dignity in
Greco-Roman antiquity; 4. Human dignity in the Middle Ages,
twelfth to fourteenth century; 5. Human dignity in late-
medieval spiritual and political conflicts; 6. The Council
of Valladolid, 1550-1551: a European disputation about the
human dignity of indigenous peoples of the Americas; 7.
Human dignity in the Renaissance; 8. Martin Luther's
conception of human dignity; 9. Natural rights vs. human
dignity: two conflicting traditions; 10. Human dignity in
Rousseau and the French Revolution; 11. Human dignity and
socialism; 12. Human dignity in the Jewish tradition; Part
II. Beyond the Scope of the European Tradition: 13. The
concepts of human dignity in moral philosophies of
indigenous peoples of the Americas; 14. Human dignity in
the Islamic world; 15. Hinduism: the universal self in a
class society; 16. Buddhism: inner dignity and absolute
altruism; 17. Human dignity in traditional Chinese
Confucianism; 18. Dignity in traditional Chinese Daoism;
Part III. Systematic Conceptualization: 19. Social and
cultural presuppositions for the use of the concept of
human dignity; 20. Is human dignity the ground of human
rights?; 21. Human dignity - can a historical foundation
alone suffice?; 22. Kantian perspectives on the rational
basis of human dignity; 23. Kantian dignity: a critique;
24. Human dignity and human rights in Alan Gewirth's moral
philosophy; 25. Human dignity in the capability approach;
26. Human dignity in Catholic thought; 27. Jacques
Maritain's personalist conception of human dignity; 28.
Scheler and human dignity; 29. Dignity and the Other:
dignity and the phenomenological tradition; 30. Dignity,
fragility, singularity in Paul Ricoeur's ethics; 31. Human
dignity as universal nobility; 32. Dignity in the Ubuntu
tradition; 33. Posthuman dignity; 34. Dignity as the right
to have rights: human dignity in Hannah Arendt; 35.
Individual and collective dignity; Part IV. Legal
Implementation: 36. Equal dignity in international human
rights; 37. Is human dignity a useless concept? Legal
perspectives; 38. Human dignity in French law; 39. Human
dignity in German law; 40. Human dignity in US law; 41.
Human dignity in South American law; 42. Human dignity in
South African law; 43. The Islamic world and the
alternative declarations of human rights; 44. The
protection of human dignity under Chinese law; 45. Human
dignity in Japanese law; 46. The place of dignity in the
Indian constitution; Part V. Conflicts and Violence: 47.
Human dignity and war; 48. Treatment of prisoners and
torture; 49. Human dignity and prostitution; 50. Human
dignity, immigration and refugees; Part VI. Contexts of
Justice: 51. Human dignity and social welfare; 52. Dignity
and global justice; 53. Human dignity and people with
disabilities; 54. Human dignity as a concept for the
economy; 55. Human dignity and gender inequalities; 56.
The rise and fall of freedom of online expression; Part
VII. Biology and Bioethics: 57. The threefold challenge of
Darwinism to an ethics of human dignity; 58. On the border
of life and death: human dignity in bioethics; 59. Human
dignity and commodification in bioethics; 60. Dignity only
for humans? A controversy; 61. Dignity only for humans? On
the dignity and inherent value of non-human beings; 62.
Human dignity and future generations.
650 0 Respect for persons|xLaw and legislation.
700 1 Düwell, Marcus,|d1962-
700 1 Braarvig, Jens.
700 1 Brownsword, Roger.
700 1 Mieth, Dietmar.
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