This volume collects two lectures by Jeremy Waldron that were originally given as Berkeley Tanner Lectures along with responses to the lectures from Wai Chee Dimock, Don Herzog, and Michael Rosen; a reply to the responses by Waldron; and an introduction by Meir Dan-Cohen.
by Rosen, Michael, Waldron, Jeremy, Dimock, Wai Chee, Herzog, Don, Dan-Cohen, Meir
"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 lecture…
Samuel J. Kerstein develops a new, broadly Kantian account of the ethical issues that arise when a person treats another merely as a means. He explores how Kantian principles on the dignity of persons shed light on pressing issues in modern bioethics, including the distribution …
"Samuel J. Kerstein develops a new, broadly Kantian account of the ethical issues that arise when a person treats another merely as a means, that is, 'just uses' the other and thereby acts wrongly. He takes his inspiration from Immanuel Kant's 'Formula of Humanity', which comman…
"Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the …
Utilizando numerosas analogías con el lenguaje de la música, el autor investiga el desarrollo de la autoestima en una sociedad desigual, cómo esa autoestima debe estar equilibrada con los sentimientos hacia los demás, y cómo el respeto mutuo puede forjar vínculos por encima de l…
Utilizando numerosas analogías con el lenguaje de la música, el autor investiga el desarrollo de la autoestima en una sociedad desigual, cómo esa autoestima debe estar equilibrada con los sentimientos hacia los demás, y cómo el respeto mutuo puede forjar vínculos por encima de l…
Introduction /Julie Claassens and Klaas Spronk --The hermeneutics of dignity /Frits de Lange --Response /Gerrit Brand --Figuring God and humankind : the imago Dei in view of anthropologies in the Old Testament /Hendrik Bosman --Response /Klaas Spronk --External response: The giv…
