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Dignity, Rank, and Rights
Waldron, Jeremy. Ed(S): Dan-Cohen, Meir
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Paperback. Editor(s): Dan-Cohen, Meir. Series: The Berkeley Tanner Lectures. Num Pages: 166 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; HPQ; LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 188.
Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings. In these lectures, Jeremy Waldron contrives to combine attractive features of both strands. In the first lecture, Waldron presents a conception of dignity that preserves its ancient association with rank and station, thus allowing him to tap rich historical resources while avoiding what many perceive as the excessive abstraction and dubious metaphysics of the Kantian strand. At the ... Read more
Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings. In these lectures, Jeremy Waldron contrives to combine attractive features of both strands. In the first lecture, Waldron presents a conception of dignity that preserves its ancient association with rank and station, thus allowing him to tap rich historical resources while avoiding what many perceive as the excessive abstraction and dubious metaphysics of the Kantian strand. At the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
166
Condition
New
Series
The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
Number of Pages
166
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190235444
SKU
V9780190235444
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About Waldron, Jeremy. Ed(S): Dan-Cohen, Meir
JW:University Professor of Law at New York UniversityMD-C:Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley
Reviews for Dignity, Rank, and Rights
Dignity, Rank, and Rights is an unusual, and unusually refreshing, exercise in legal philosophyhis account of dignity as a legal status is meticulously researched, engages with a broad collection of thinkers and theories, and offers real insights into dignity's legal dimensions.
Michigan Law Review
Waldron's take on human dignity is novel. It contains a bold inversion of almost ... Read more
Michigan Law Review
Waldron's take on human dignity is novel. It contains a bold inversion of almost ... Read more