Dignity, Rank, and Rights

by Jeremy Waldron

Book Overview

Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings. In these lectures, Jeremy Waldron contrives to combine attractive features of both strands. In the first lecture, Waldron presents a conception of dignity that preserves its ancient association...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199915431
• ISBN13: 9780199915439
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"