Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medical historians, and prominent moral philosophers, Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy addresses the ethical, bio-ethical, epistemological, historical, and meta-philosophical questions raised by cogn…
This book argues that respecting persons as moral agents requires considerable consideration be paid to the subjective moral judgments of individual persons. It shows that such judgments are important independently of their validity or even their reasonableness. Despite the grea…
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.
Natural law and human dignity
by Bloch, Ernst
fromStudies in contemporary German social thought
Human value: a study in ancient philosophical ethics
