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Dignity, Rank, and Rights (Hardcover)
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Dignity, Rank, and Rights (Hardcover)
Series: The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
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Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress
the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and
hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an
abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings. In
these lectures, Jeremy Waldron contrives to combine attractive
features of both strands. In the first lecture, Waldron presents a
conception of dignity that preserves its ancient association with
rank and station, thus allowing him to tap rich historical
resources while avoiding what many perceive as the excessive
abstraction and dubious metaphysics of the Kantian strand. At the
same time he argues for a conception of human dignity that amounts
to a generalization of high status across all human beings, and so
attains the appealing universality of the Kantian position. The
second lecture focuses particularly on the importance of dignity -
understood in this way - as a status defining persons' relation to
law: their presentation as persons capable of self-applying the
law, capable of presenting and arguing a point of view, and capable
of responding to law's demands without brute coercion. Together the
two lectures illuminate the relation between dignity conceived as
the ground of rights and dignity conceived as the content of
rights; they also illuminate important ideas about dignity as noble
bearing and dignity as the subject of a right against degrading
treatment; and they help us understand the sense in which dignity
is better conceived as a status than as a kind of value.
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