Kant’s Concept of Dignity /

Kant’s Concept of Dignity / / ed. by Yasushi Kato, Gerhard Schönrich.

Nearly all philosophers refer to Kant when debating the concept of dignity, and many approve of Kant’s conception, unaware of the tensions between Kant’s conception and the modern idea of dignity intimately connected to the idea of human rights. What exactly is Kant's conception of dignity? Is...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Ameriks, Karl,
Birnbacher, Dieter,
Flikschuh, Katrin,
Hill, Thomas E.,
Horn, Christoph,
Kato, Yasushi,
Kettner, Matthias,
Meld Shell, Susan,
Mosayebi, Reza,
Saito, Takuya,
Schönrich, Gerhard,
Sensen, Oliver,
Sturma, Dieter,
Wood, Allen,
Yamatsuta, Saneyuki,
HerausgeberIn:
Kato, Yasushi,
Schönrich, Gerhard,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2020
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte , 209
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 330 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations of Kant’s Works
  • Introduction
  • Absoluteness and Contingency. Kant’s Use of the Concept of Dignity
  • From Würde to Würde der Kreatur
  • Kant’s Theory of Dignity: A Fitting-Attitude Analysis of a Value
  • A Semi-Kantian Account of Dignity. Passing the Buck whilst Regulating Reasons for Human Rights
  • Kantian Dignity Semantics. An unreliable Resource for Human Rights Culture
  • The Moralization of Human Dignity in Kant’s Ethics
  • Kant’s “Idea” of Dignity. Value and Moral Elevation in the Groundlaying
  • How to Respect Someone’s Dignity
  • The Kingdom of Ends as an Ideal and a Constraint on Moral Legislation
  • In the Realm of Ends – Kant on Autonomy and Dignity
  • End in Itself and Dignity
  • The Heuristic Use of the Concept of Dignity in Kantian Philosophy
  • The Fate of Dignity: How Words Matter
  • The dignity of the state in Kant’s Doctrine of Right
  • Kant on patriotism: ‘civic dignity’ and ‘way of thinking’
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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