Dignity in the 21st Century : Middle East and West / by Doris Schroeder, Abol‐Hassan Bani-Sadr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schroeder, Doris, Author.

Banī Ṣadr, Abū al-Ḥasan, Author.

Series:

SpringerBriefs in Philosophy, 2211-4556

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Islam.

Philosophy, Modern.

Arts.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Law--History.

Political science.

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.

Philosophical Traditions.

Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

Political Theory.

Local Subjects:

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.

Islam.

Philosophical Traditions.

Arts.

Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

Political Theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 101 p. 19 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. First, the book is co-authored by scholars from two different cultures (Middle East and West). As a result, the interpretations of dignity covered are broader than those in most Western publications. Second, the ambition of the book is to use examples from everyday life and fiction to debate a range of dignity interpretations supplemented by philosophical and theological theories. Thus, the book is designed to be accessible to a general readership, which is further facilitated because it is published with full open access. Third, the book does not defend one superior theory of dignity, but instead presents six Western approaches and one based on the Koran and then asks whether a common essence can be detected. The answer to the question whether a common essence can be detected between the Koranic interpretation of dignity and the main Western theories (virtue, Kant) is YES. The essence can be seen in dignity as a sense of self-worth, which persons have a duty to develop and respect in themselves and a duty to protect in others. The book ends with two recommendations. First, given the 7 concepts of dignity introduced in the book, meaningful dialogue can only be achieved if conversation partners clarify which variation they are using. Second, future collaborations between philosophers and psychologists might be helpful in moving theoretical knowledge on dignity as a sense of self-worth into practical action. The “scourges” of a sense of self-worth and dignity are identified by psychologists as violence, humiliation, disregard and embarrassment. To know more about how these can be avoided from psychologists, is helpful when protecting asense of self-worth in others.

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.

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783319580203

3319580205

OCLC:

992502368

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access