Dignity : a history

Introduction Remy DebesChapter 1. Dignity in Homer and Classical Greece Patrice RankineChapter 2. Dignity in Roman and Stoic Thought Miriam GriffinReflection: Dignity in Confucian and Buddhist Thought David WongChapter 3. Dignity After the Fall Bonnie KentChapter 4. Islamic Conceptions of Dignity: Historical Trajectories and Paradigms Mustafa ShahChapter 5. Dignity, Vile Bodies and Nakedness: Giovanni Pico and Giannozzo Manetti Brian CopenhaverReflection: Portraiture, Social Positioning, and Displays of Dignity in Early Modern London Edward TownChapter 6. Equal Dignity and Rights Stephen DarwallChapter 7. Human Dignity Before Kant: Denis Diderot's Passionate Person Remy DebesChapter 8. Dignity: Kant's Revolutionary Conception Oliver SensenReflection: A Time For Dignity Charles MillsChapter 9. Bourgeois Dignity: Making the Self-Made Man Christine HendersonReflection: Taking refuge from history in morality: Marx, Morality, and Dignity Somogy VargaChapter 10. Universalizing Dignity in the Nineteenth Century Mikka LaVaque-MantyReflection: Why Bioethics isn't Ready for Human Dignity Marcus DüwellChapter 11. Sympathy and Dignity in Early Africana Philosophy Bernie BoxillReflection: Death and Dignity in American Law Emma Kaufman