Humanity without Dignity : : Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights / / Andrea Sangiovanni.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2017
• VerfasserIn: Sangiovanni, Andrea,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; Introduction --; 1. Against Dignity --; 2. Moral Equality, Respect, and Cruelty --; 3. When and Why Is Discrimination Wrong? --; 4. The Concept of Human Rights: The Broad View --; 5. International Legal Human Rights and Equal Moral Status --; 6. Fundamental Rights, Indivisibility, and Hierarchy among Human Rights --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674977440; 9783110540550; 9783110625264; 9783110548228; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674977440
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andrea Sangiovanni.

Why are all persons due equal respect? Andrea Sangiovanni rejects the view that human dignity is grounded in our capacities for reason, love, etc. Rather than focus on the basis for equality, we should focus on inequality: Why and when is it wrong to treat others as inferior? Moral equality, he writes, is best explained by a rejection of cruelty.