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

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

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Sangiovanni, Andrea,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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