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Dignity in the 21st Century : Middle East and West /

This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book offers a unique and insightful analysis of Western and Middle Eastern concepts of dignity and illustrates them with examples of everyday life. Dignity in the 21st Century - Middle East and West is unique and insightful for a range of reasons....

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Main Authors: Schroeder, Doris
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Banī Ṣadr, Abū al-Ḥasan
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy,
Subjects:
Philosophy
Islam
Political theory
Ethics
Philosophy, Asian
Humanities
Law > Philosophy
Law
Non-Western philosophy
Popular Science in Humanities / Arts
Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58020-3
Summary: This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book offers a unique and insightful analysis of Western and Middle Eastern concepts of dignity and illustrates them with examples of everyday life. Dignity in the 21st Century - Middle East and West is unique and insightful for a range of reasons. First, the book is co-authored by scholars from two different cultures (Middle East and West). As a result, the interpretations of dignity covered are broader than those in most Western publications. Second, the ambition of the book is to use examples from everyday life and fiction to debate a ra
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XIII,101pages): illustrations.
ISBN: 9783319580203
Access: Open Access
Index Number: BJ1
CLC: B82
Contents: The quest for dignity -- Dignity in the west -- Dignity s omnipresence -- A very short history of dignity -- Immanuel kant s concept of dignity -- Dignity in legal instruments -- Dignity in bioethics -- Disambiguating the main concepts of dignity -- What kind of concept is dignity? -- Is dignity a virtue? -- Is dignity an individual characteristic not covered by virtues? -- Is dignity intrinsic to human beings? -- Is dignity god-given? The example of christianity -- Testing and critiquing the taxonomy of dignity -- Dignity and vagueness -- Could dignity be replaced with respect for persons?

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