Abstract:
It stands to reason that a criterion is needed that can serve as a common denominator for weighing or assessing different values or ideals. Dignity is offered as a possible candidate, to be presented from religio-legal and cross-cultural vantages. A definition will be offered for dignity and its parts defended throughout the paper. The approach is not only not rigorously analytic – there are no case studies – but is instead a presentation of topic areas where we should expect to find the concept of dignity to be relevant. Utilizing a rights-moral and duties-ethical framework, it is in essence an argument for further elevating the prestige of dignity so that it might provide a widely-accepted groundwork for ethics and morality.
Keywords:
dignity, honor, culture, virtue ethics, consequentialism, Kant
How to cite:
Herrman, Charles. “What Is Dignity?” Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 3, no. 3(9) (2019): 103-126. https://doi.org/10.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.0033.
Author:
Charles Herrman
Independent Scholar
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2093-3428
cherrman@gmail.com
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