Book contents
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Part I The Contours of Dignitarian Humanism
- Part II Against Traditional Accounts of Human Dignity
- Part III A Revisionist Approach
- 8 Dignity-Revisionism: Challenges and Opportunities
- 9 Commercial and Human Economies
- 10 Marx on Value and Valorization
- 11 Love and Respect: Attentional Currencies
- 12 Attentional Precedence
- 13 Human Dignity
- 14 After Respect
- 15 Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Bibliography
- Index
13 - Human Dignity
from Part III - A Revisionist Approach
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2021
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Part I The Contours of Dignitarian Humanism
- Part II Against Traditional Accounts of Human Dignity
- Part III A Revisionist Approach
- 8 Dignity-Revisionism: Challenges and Opportunities
- 9 Commercial and Human Economies
- 10 Marx on Value and Valorization
- 11 Love and Respect: Attentional Currencies
- 12 Attentional Precedence
- 13 Human Dignity
- 14 After Respect
- 15 Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
So far, this book has said a great deal about what human dignity is not, or, at any rate, how we shouldn’t think about it. I have denied that it is helpfully construed as an inherent possession of the person, an inward attribute revealed in conscious introspection, an existential identity or uniqueness, a quasi-juridical status, a form of authority or personal sovereignty, a generic “purposiveness,” or an inalienable quality that never changes. If human dignity is none of these things, then what would a more compelling conceptualization of it look like? Is any cogent and politically useful account of human dignity left?
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- Human Dignity and Political Criticism , pp. 199 - 218Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021