Human Dignity: A Challenge to Contemporary Philosophy

Spiegelberg, Herbert

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“…In addition to its foundational roles in health and human rights, dignity also figures prominently in constitutional law, in social justice, and in ethnographic accounts of the lives of poor and oppressed people [28-35]. Despite, or perhaps because of, this ubiquity, the idea of dignity has been criticized for being vague and contradictory [36-38]. …”

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A taxonomy of dignity: a grounded theory study

Jacobson

2009

BMC Int Health Hum Rights

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BackgroundThis paper has its origins in Jonathan Mann's insight that the experience of dignity may explain the reciprocal relationships between health and human rights. It follows his call for a taxonomy of dignity: "a coherent vocabulary and framework to characterize dignity."MethodsGrounded theory procedures were use to analyze literature pertaining to dignity and to conduct and analyze 64 semi-structured interviews with persons marginalized by their health or social status, individuals who provide health or social services to these populations, and people working in the field of health and human rights.ResultsThe taxonomy presented identifies two main forms of dignity–human dignity and social dignity–and describes several elements of these forms, including the social processes that violate or promote them, the conditions under which such violations and promotions occur, the objects of violation and promotion, and the consequences of dignity violation. Together, these forms and elements point to a theory of dignity as a quality of individuals and collectives that is constituted through interaction and interpretation and structured by conditions pertaining to actors, relationships, settings, and the broader social order.ConclusionThe taxonomy has several implications for work in health and human rights. It suggests a map to possible points of intervention and provides a language in which to talk about dignity.

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A taxonomy of dignity: a grounded theory study

Jacobson

2009

BMC Int Health Hum Rights

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“…13 For an approach to the significance and meaning of human dignity from the perspective of deprivation and violation, see Kaufmann et al 2011. 14 See Herbert Spiegelberg's analysis of the history of the concept (Spiegelberg 1970). whether medicinal practices like human cloning violate the concept of human dignity and if they do, in what way, are quite different from questions like whether the death penalty does.…”

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Reconsidering Human Dignity in a Confucian Context: A Review of Ni Peimin’s Conceptual Reconstruction

Schilling

2016

Dao

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“…He observed (1970, 62): “Human dignity seems to be one of the few common values in our world of philosophical pluralism … The main hurdle at the moment is that there is not enough clarity about the meaning of human dignity. To provide it is the responsibility of all philosophers.” Leon Kass, writing more than three decades later, echoes Spiegelberg’s general observation: “Human dignity is ... a useful notion, perhaps even the right one ...…”

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Human Non-persons, Feticide, and the Erosion of Dignity

Pullman

2010

Bioethical Inquiry

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Feticide, the practice of terminating the life of an otherwise viable fetus in utero, has become an increasingly common practice in obstetric centres around the globe, a concomitant of antenatal screening technologies. This paper examines this expanding practice in light of the concept of human dignity. Although it is assumed from the outset that even viable human fetuses are not persons and as such do not enjoy full membership in the moral community, it is argued that the fact that these are nevertheless human fetuses affords them prima facie moral status. Thus even those who accept a liberal position with regard to therapeutic abortion, should be concerned about these more recent developments. Indeed, how we treat viable human fetuses has implications for our prospective treatment of other human non-persons and could undermine the common human dignity we all share.

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Human Dignity: A Challenge to Contemporary Philosophy

Cited by 18 publications

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A taxonomy of dignity: a grounded theory study

A taxonomy of dignity: a grounded theory study

Reconsidering Human Dignity in a Confucian Context: A Review of Ni Peimin’s Conceptual Reconstruction

Human Non-persons, Feticide, and the Erosion of Dignity

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