What Is Dignity?

• Authors: Herrman Charles
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

It stands to reason that a criterion is needed that can serve as a common denominator for weighing or assessing different values or ideals. Dignity is offered as a possible candidate, to be presented from religio-legal and cross-cultural vantages. A definition will be offered for dignity and its parts defended throughout the paper. The approach is not only not rigorously analytic – there are no case studies – but is instead a presentation of topic areas where we should expect to find the concept of dignity to be relevant. Utilizing a rights-moral and duties-ethical framework, it is in essence an argument for further elevating the prestige of dignity so that it might provide a widely-accepted groundwork for ethics and morality. .

Keywords

EN

dignity; honor; culture; virtue ethics; consequentialism; Kant

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 3(9)
• Pages: 103-126

Dates

published

2019-10-31

Contributors

author

Herrman Charles

• Independent Scholar

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.0033