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3 - Pressure Points

from Part I - The Contours of Dignitarian Humanism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2021

Colin Bird
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University of Virginia
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This chapter paints a composite portrait of the leading features of what I call dignitarian humanism. I again stress that there is in fact no single doctrine to which this label refers, still less any canonical understanding of how central dignitarian commitments fit together. For the time being, however, I make the artificial assumption that we can recover the view of a representative “dignitarian humanist” whose position we are seeking to sympathetically reconstruct but critically assess. As the argument proceeds, and we tease out those aspects of dignitarian consciousness that are worth keeping while dropping others, my hope is that we will wind up with a compelling dignitarian view that does have a genuine doctrinal integrity.

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  • Pressure Points
  • Colin Bird, University of Virginia
  • Book: Human Dignity and Political Criticism
  • Online publication: 24 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108937597.004
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  • Pressure Points
  • Colin Bird, University of Virginia
  • Book: Human Dignity and Political Criticism
  • Online publication: 24 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108937597.004
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  • Pressure Points
  • Colin Bird, University of Virginia
  • Book: Human Dignity and Political Criticism
  • Online publication: 24 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108937597.004
Available formats
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