Dignity: A History Remy Debes Oxford University Press, 2017 - 408 pages 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 status 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. |
