Dignity in the 21st Century : : Middle East and West / / by Doris Schroeder, Abol‐Hassan Bani-Sadr.
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book offers a unique and insightful analysis of Western and Middle Eastern concepts of dignity and illustrates them with examples of everyday life. Dignity in the 21st Century - Middle East and West is unique and insightful for a range of reasons....
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| Superior document: | SpringerBriefs in Philosophy, |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Philosophy,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XIII, 101 p. 19 illus. in color.) |
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Table of Contents:
- The quest for dignity
- Dignity in the west
- Dignity’s omnipresence
- A very short history of dignity
- Immanuel kant’s concept of dignity
- Dignity in legal instruments
- Dignity in bioethics
- Disambiguating the main concepts of dignity
- What kind of concept is dignity?
- Is dignity a virtue?
- Is dignity an individual characteristic not covered by virtues?
- Is dignity intrinsic to human beings?
- Is dignity god-given? The example of christianity
- Testing and critiquing the taxonomy of dignity
- Dignity and vagueness
- Could dignity be replaced with respect for persons?
- A common core of dignity building blocks?
- Concluding on the dignity riddles
- Dignity in the middle east.-islam – A brief Overview of a world religion
- The prophet
- The koran and the hadîths
- Islam in everyday life
- Introduction to dignity in the koran
- Dignity and power
- Dignity and freedom
- How dignity becomes realisable
- Middle east and west – can common ground be found?
- Dignity – a fictional dialogue.