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Dignity : a history / edited by Remy Debes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford philosophical concepts.
- Oxford philosophical concepts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dignity--History.
- Dignity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 408 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to human dignity. Dignity refers to the fundamental moral worth or statu supposedly belonging to all persons equally. But this is relatively new. In this volume, leading scholars across a range of disciplines attempt to clarify the variegated and murky history of 'dignity,' and explain how it arrived it is current and historically unusual meaning.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-067754-6
- 0-19-938602-1
- 0-19-938601-3
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