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1. blogs.lse.ac.uk › theforum › a-history-of-human-dignityA History of Human Dignity | Forum for Philosophy - LSE Blogs

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   Feb 5, 2018 · Remy Debes on the tangled, contradictory origins of our concept of dignity. In Western society, the idea of human dignity is precious. Understood as something like the inherent or unearned worth that all humans share equally, human dignity is typically treated as the moral basis of human rights. For the same reason, it usually stands as a limit ...

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2. bigthink.com › the-present › what-is-human-dignityA brief history of human dignity - Big Think

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   Nov 30, 2020 · Human dignity is the inherent worth of each individual human being. Recognizing human dignity means respecting human beings’ special value—value that sets us apart from other animals; value ...

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3. bmcr.brynmawr.edu › 2018 › 2018Dignity: A History. Oxford philosophical concepts – Bryn Mawr ...

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   Today, the term means something like “inherent or unearned worth.” This is found most explicitly in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Let us call this the “moralistic conception of dignity.” However, Debes points out that the moralistic conception of dignity was not always the dominant way of understanding the concept.

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4. plato.stanford.edu › entries › dignityDignity - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Feb 18, 2023 · Dignity. First published Sat Feb 18, 2023. Dignity is a complex concept. In academic and legal contexts, it is typically used in the couplet “human dignity” to denote a kind of basic worth or status that purportedly belongs to all persons equally, and which grounds fundamental moral or political duties or rights.

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   Jun 25, 2023 · Human dignity and human worth are inseparable from our existence as human beings. Recognizing and upholding the inherent value of every individual is essential for building a just, inclusive, and ...

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   Mar 5, 2015 · (2) By virtue of what do human beings have dignity? (3) Why believe in human dignity? (4) What are the practical implications? Kant's main themes were these (Kant 2002: 214–45): all persons, regardless of rank or social class, have an equal intrinsic worth or dignity. Human dignity is an innate worth or status that we did not earn and cannot ...

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   When did the term 'inherent worth of humans' come out?

   • The first official use of the term in anything like the sense we tend to use it now didn’t appear in a major political declaration until the Mexican Constitution of 1917, and even then it didn’t clearly connote ‘inherent or unearned worth of humans’.

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   What is inherent human dignity?

   • concept of inherent human dignity. This is philosophically the more important of the two, providing as it does the basis for the Declara tion's affirmation of human rights. In fact, we should properly under of inherent dignity, and thus as the link between it and the Declara tion's portrait of achieved dignity.

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   Do humans have a price?

   • Third, there is a considerable body of literature on the Enlightenment luminaire, Immanuel Kant, and his famous claim that humans do not have a “price”, only a distinctive and incomparable worth or Würde —usually translated as “dignity” (see, e.g., Korsgaard 1986; Meyer 1987; Hill 1992; Kofman 1982 ; Wood 1999; Kain 2009).

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   What is the difference between the declaration of human dignity and achievement?

   • On the one hand, the Declaration is concerned to specify, proclaim, and promote the observance of those rights that will allow for the achieve ment of dignified living. It thus projects a concept of achieved human dignity. On the other hand, and of course more foundationally, the with achievement. Let us consider separately these two respective

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   Is the declaration of human dignity heuristic?

   • ration to try to suggest, and indeed is impossible to envision or predict. The Declaration's concept of achieved human dignity, in other words, is still heuristic; its meaning is incomplete with regard to the actualized particulars of the life of any one person living a dignified existence.

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   What does inherency mean?

   • The notion of inherency eliminates the idea that basic human dignity is granted by other people. 1) state explicitly—an "inviolable" dignity. That means that it cannot be negated or destroyed by any means whatsoever, not by others, nor even by ourselves in our indifference, self-disgust, or despair.

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   African delegate C. T. Te Water suggested removing the term dignity from the document, Eleanor Roosevelt explained that in the scheme of the Declaration, Article 1, which affirms universal, equal, and inherent human dignity, "did not refer to specific rights because it was meant to explain why human beings have rights to begin with" (2001, 144-46,