Dignity, Equality, Freedom: The EU-Policy Values Viewed Personalistically

• Authors: Michael Nnamdi Konye
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author points out that dignity, equality, and freedom are leading themes of the European Union policy and should be respected and upheld if understood personalistically. He agrues that the subjectivity of the individual person, rather than that of the public state, underlines the context of interpreting those themes which are the liberal values the Western society purports to cultivate. Therefore, he claims that dignity is grounded on the understanding of man as imago Dei, equality is doubly grounded in both the unique identity and incommunicability of each human person, and freedom is doubly grounded in the dual responsibility of each human person for his or her actions as well as the responsibility we share for each human life from conception to natural death.

Keywords

EN

dignity; equality; freedom; European Union; personalism; subjectivity; individual; person; imago Dei; identity; incommunicability; responsibility; human action; human rights

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 491-526

Dates

published

2016-09-30

Contributors

author

Michael Nnamdi Konye

• John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

Identifiers

ISSN

2300-0066