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17%OFFAndrea Sangiovanni - Humanity without Dignity: Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights - 9780674049215 - V9780674049215
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Humanity without Dignity: Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights

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Description for Humanity without Dignity: Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights Hardback. Why are all persons due equal respect? Andrea Sangiovanni rejects the view that human dignity is grounded in our capacities for reason, love, etc. Rather than focus on the basis for equality, we should focus on inequality: Why and when is it wrong to treat others as inferior? Moral equality, he writes, is best explained by a rejection of cruelty. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 23 x 15. .
Name any valued human trait--intelligence, wit, charm, grace, strength--and you will find an inexhaustible variety and complexity in its expression among individuals. Yet we insist that such diversity does not provide grounds for differential treatment at the most basic level. Whatever merit, blame, praise, love, or hate we receive as beings with a particular past and a particular constitution, we are always and everywhere due equal respect merely as persons. But why? Most who attempt to answer this question appeal to the idea that all human beings possess an intrinsic dignity and worth--grounded in our capacities, for ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674049215
SKU
V9780674049215
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About Andrea Sangiovanni
Andrea Sangiovanni is Reader in Philosophy at King's College London.

Reviews for Humanity without Dignity: Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights
This is an important book on a much-discussed subject: what does talk about human equality amount to? Many answers are formulated in terms of dignity, which is often grounded in the idea that there is some value-bestowing property we all share in equal measure. Sangiovanni offers an alternative account and explores in great detail and with much sophistication what it ... Read more

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