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Understanding Human Dignity [PDF]

, 2010
Throughout his Adventures of Ideas, Whitehead defines the history of civilization as the progressive formation of the idea of human dignity, just like a “tiny glow announcing the dawn of a new life order”1.
Pele, Antonio
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Judicial Interpretation of Human Dignity by Hong Kong’s Courts

SAGE Open, 2022
This study employed empirical, case, and comparative analysis methods to examine how Hong Kong’s courts have judicially interpreted the concept of human dignity.
Taixia Shen
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Human cloning and human dignity [PDF]

حقوق بشر, 2006
Catholic Church and most of Muslims believe that human cloning is in contrast with human rights. They argue that applying Somatic Nuclear Transfer Technique or so-called cloning to humans is against human dignity.
Hasan Eslami
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Poverty: A Challenge to Human Dignity?

Diaconia, 2010
How does the widespread phenomenon of poverty constitute a challenge to human dignity? This article argues firstly that a pervasive idea of human dignity, namely one that links dignity with autonomy, indeed evokes moral insights and guidance that are ...
Ulla Schmidt
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The Recovery of Human Dignity in Protestant Christianity and Its Ethical Implications

Religions, 2023
Human dignity, in the Protestant traditions, was generally formulated in reaction to Catholicism. Initial assessments of human dignity were less than enthusiastic and framed soteriologically and contingent on God’s saving grace.
Paul Martens, Wemimo B. Jaiyesimi
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Beyond the Harvard Definition: A Critique of Josef Seifert’s Realistic Phenomenological Approach to Brain Death

Religions
This article explores the significance of context in defining death, particularly through the lens of the Harvard definition and the critiques offered by Josef Seifert.
Gusztáv Kovács
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Human Dignity: Final, Inherent, Absolute?

Rivista di Estetica, 2020
In the traditional understanding, human dignity is often portrayed as a «final», «inherent», and «absolute» value. If human dignity as the core of the status of a human being did indeed have thos characteristics, this would yield a severe limitation for ...
Sebastian Muders
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Human Rights Pragmatism and Human Dignity [PDF]

, 2013
Human rights sound a lot like moral rights: rights that we have because we are human. Many philosophers think it follows that the list of international human rights must therefore be founded on some philosophical account of moral rights or of human ...
Luban, David
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Human cloning laws, human dignity and the poverty of the policy making dialogue [PDF]

, 2003
Background The regulation of human cloning continues to be a significant national and international policy issue. Despite years of intense academic and public debate, there is little clarity as to the philosophical foundations for many of the emerging ...
Timothy Caulfield, G Vogel, A Bonnicksen, O Schachter, S Malby, O Schachter, D Pullman, D Feldman, A Gewirth, RA Mohler, G Vogel, G Giles, UNESCO, World Health Organization, Council of Europe, C Shalev, R Williamson, D Bruce, Scientific Committee of the International Society of Bioethics (SIBI), HUGO Ethics Committee, C Rovane, T Caulfield, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, J Polkinghorne, TG Wright, D Beyleveld, S Pattinson, D Bruce, S Malby, TG Wright, G Meilaender, G Meilaender, S Malby, O Schachter, A Kolnai, D Ullrich, D Feldman, UNESCO, S Malby, J Harris, B Steinbock, S Pattinson, Canada Health, House of Commons Standing Committee on Health, President's Council on Bioethics, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, President's Council on Bioethics, T Caulfield, R Dworkin, R Dworkin, C Donley Young, C Shalev, S Pattinson, R Gibbins, D Beyleveld   +54 more
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Ethical Precision in Nanoscale Brain Interfacing

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
As brain interfaces approach the nanoscale, precision no longer only measures—it knows, predicts, and potentially reshapes the mind. This work argues that traditional ethics fails under such conditions and proposes a shift toward continuous, operation‐based governance using the recovery–discovery framework to track, constrain, and responsibly steer ...
Guilherme Wood
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