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Dignity in and at work : why it matters [PDF]

, 2007
Throughout the history of social science, dignity is a word that is continually used to express concern about various aspects of work. Within these concerns we see a set of implicit understandings of what dignity is, and what it does, and profoundly ...
Bolton, S.C.
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Liberalism, Human Rights, and Human Dignity [PDF]

, 1987
Do international standards regarding human rights require the existence of a liberal regime? This was the thrust of Rhoda Howard and Jack Donnelly’s essay in the September 1986 issue of this Review. Neil Mitchell takes vigorous issue with this contention,
Donnelly, Jack, Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E., Mitchell, Neil   +2 more
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Human Dignity as a Status vs Human Dignity as a Value. A Double Nature

Phenomenology and Mind, 2016
My paper provides an analysis of two antithetical theories about the nature of human dignity: human dignity as a status, human dignity as a value. Strengths of the theories consist in having developed two relevant traits of human dignity, respectively ...
Barbara Malvestiti
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Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Political Regimes [PDF]

, 1986
It is often argued that internationally recognized human rights are common to all cultural traditions and adaptable to a great variety of social structures and political regimes. Such arguments confuse human rights with human dignity.
Donnelly, Jack, Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.   +1 more
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Calvin and human dignity

In die Skriflig, 2010
Human dignity has become a major moral directive in the contemporary ethical reflection on human rights and bio-ethics. This article examines the theological foundations laid by the reformer Calvin regarding the inherent dignity of people, and his ...
J.M. Vorster
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"Reconsidering Dignity Relationally" [PDF]

, 2017
I reconsider the concept of dignity in several ways in this article. My primary aim is to move dignity in a more relational direction, drawing on care ethics to do so.
Miller, Sarah Clark
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Critique of the Philosophical and Legal Foundations of Inherent Dignity in Contemporary Law [PDF]

فلسفه حقوق
Human dignity is an innate and inherent value, in other words, the nature and human essence of human beings known as the basis for the birth of human rights. Inherent dignity, as a basis and principle, is the founder of the positivist international human
Sima Hatami
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Kantian Dignity and Marxian Socialism [PDF]

, 2017
This paper offers an account of human dignity based on a discussion of Kant's moral and political philosophy and then shows its relevance for articulating and developing in a fresh way some normative dimensions of Marx’s critique of capitalism as ...
Gilabert, Pablo
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Claiming Human Dignity [PDF]

, 2011
In the concluding line of his opening note to Black Reconstruction in America, W. E. B. Du Bois, wrote “I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my ...
Bobo, Lawrence D.
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Human Dignity

, 2015
Human dignity is now a central feature of many modern constitutions and international documents. As a constitutional value, human dignity involves a person's free will, autonomy, and ability to write a life story within the framework of society. As a constitutional right, it gives full expression to the value of human dignity, subject to the specific ...
Andorno, Roberto, Pele, Antonio
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