In Honor, History, and Relationship Stephen Darwall explores the idea of a second-personal framework for morality and its foundations, in which we are committed to morality by presuppositions that are inescapable when we relate to others (person to person).
A major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the world's most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkin's discomfort w…
"Directed at a diverse audience of students, legal and public health practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding what human rights-based approaches to health and development mean and why they matter, Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity provides a solid found…
While some commentators consider appeals to human dignity to be little more than rhetoric and not worthy of serious consideration, the authors of this study give such appeals distinct and defensible meaning through an application of the moral theory of Alan Gewirth.
Human dignity and human cloning
This book makes a significant contribution to the on-going international dialogue on the meaning of concepts such as human rights, humanity, and cosmopolitanism. The authors propose a new agenda for research into a Critical Theory of Human Rights. Each chapter pursues three goal…
"This book examines the key 2008 publication of the Russian Orthodox Church on human dignity, freedom, and rights. It considers how the document was formed, charting the development over time of the Russian Orthodox Church's views on human rights. It analyzes the detail of the d…
Der erste Band der Reihe "Deutsch-Georgische Jahrbücher" bietet Perspektiven auf die gemeinsamen Debatten um Menschenrechte und Menschenwürde, die in den beiden Ländern in unterschiedlichen Kontexten geführt werden. Den Blick zwischen Georgien und Deutschland hin- und herwendend…
Der erste Band der Reihe "Deutsch-Georgische Jahrbücher" bietet Perspektiven auf die gemeinsamen Debatten um Menschenrechte und Menschenwürde, die in den beiden Ländern in unterschiedlichen Kontexten geführt werden. Den Blick zwischen Georgien und Deutschland hin- und herwendend…
A Pragmatic Approach to Libertarian Free Will argues that the kind of free will required for moral responsibility and just desert is libertarian free will. It is a source of great controversy whether such a libertarian view is coherent and whether we should believe that we have …
A Pragmatic Approach to Libertarian Free Will argues that the kind of free will required for moral responsibility and just desert is libertarian free will. It is a source of great controversy whether such a libertarian view is coherent and whether we should believe that we have …
Although compassion is essential in clinical settings because it stimulates nurses to take positive action to alleviate the suffering of patients, a psychometrically validated instrument that measures comprehensively the multidimensional construct of clinical compassion in nurse…
The project is for the equipping of the hearts and minds of the high school students at Twin Tiers Christian Academy in Breesport, New York, with a biblical worldview in areas of human dignity of the body. Chapter 1 provides a brief history and ministry context for Twin Tiers Ch…