The Concept of Human Dignity in Human Rights Discourse

The Concept of Human Dignity in Human Rights Discourse
Author: David Kretzmer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2021-08-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004478191

The notion of human dignity plays a central role in human rights discourse. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognition of the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. The international Covenants on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and on Civil and Political Rights state that all human rights derive from inherent dignity of the human person. Some modern constitutions include human dignity as a fundamental non-derogable right; others mention it as a right to be protected alongside other rights. It is not only lawyers concerned with human rights who have to contend with the concept of human dignity. The concept has been discussed by, inter alia, theologians, philosophers, and anthropologists. In this book leading scholars in constitutional and international law, human rights, theology, philosophy, history and classics, from various countries, discuss the concept of human dignity from differing perspectives. These perspectives help to elucidate the meaning of the concept in human rights discourse.

Understanding Human Dignity

Understanding Human Dignity
Author: Christopher McCrudden
Publisher: Proceedings of the British Aca
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780197265826

The concept of 'human dignity' has become central to politics, law and theology but is little understood. This book presents a wide-ranging collection of edited essays from specialists in law, theology, politics and history and defines the main areas of current debates about the concept in these disciplines.

Dignity and International Human Rights Law

Dignity and International Human Rights Law
Author: Brett G. Scharffs
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000457346

The Punta del Este Declaration, and this book dedicated to elaborating upon it, is devoted to exploring the ways that human dignity for everyone everywhere can be a useful tool in helping to address the challenges and strains facing human rights in the world today. In 2018, an initiative was instigated to revitalize the human rights project by way of engaging the notion of human dignity. This resulted in the Punta Del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere (Punta Del Este Declaration), a declaration co-authored by over 30 human rights experts from all over the world. The Punta Del Este Declaration simplifies and brings coherence to the concept of human dignity in 10 brief statements that capture the many dimensions and aspects of human dignity and the practical ways that human dignity is useful in the promotion of human rights. This book provides an overview of how the notion of human dignity has been used to strengthen human rights. It discusses how human dignity playsmany different roles in human rights discourse and has the force to revitalize the human rights project; it is the foundational principle upon which the human rights project is built. But it is also the telos, or end goal, of human rights. At the same time, it is an important evaluative mechanism for assessing how well a country is doing in the implementation of human rights. The book will be a valuable resource for all those working in the areas of International Human Rights Law, Legal Philosophy, and Law and Religion.

Human Dignity and the Future of Global Institutions

Human Dignity and the Future of Global Institutions
Author: Mark P. Lagon
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2014-08-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1626161208

In Human Dignity and the Future of Global Institutions contributors examine how traditional and emerging institutions are already advancing human dignity, and identify strategies to make human dignity more central to the work of global institutions. They explore traditional state-created entities, hybrid institutions and faith-based organizations.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights
Author: Hoda Mahmoudi
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2019-11-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1789738237

This timely collection brings together a diverse array of field-leading contributors in order to offer an interdisciplinary investigation into a discourse, research, and action agenda in pursuit of the universal application of human dignity.

The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity

The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity
Author: Marcus Düwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1130
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107782406

This introduction to human dignity explores the history of the notion from antiquity to the nineteenth century, and the way in which dignity is conceptualised in non-Western contexts. Building on this, it addresses a range of systematic conceptualisations, considers the theoretical and legal conditions for human dignity as a useful notion and analyses a number of philosophical and conceptual approaches to dignity. Finally, the book introduces current debates, paying particular attention to the legal implementation, human rights, justice and conflicts, medicine and bioethics, and provides an explicit systematic framework for discussing human dignity. Adopting a wide range of perspectives and taking into account numerous cultures and contexts, this handbook is a valuable resource for students, scholars and professionals working in philosophy, law, history and theology.

Dignity

Dignity
Author: Remy Debes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190677546

In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to the idea of human dignity. In such contexts, the concept of dignity typically signifies something like the fundamental moral status belonging to all humans. Remarkably, however, it is only in the last century that this meaning of the term has become standardized. Before this, dignity was instead a concept associated with social status. Unfortunately, this transformation remains something of a mystery in existing scholarship. Exactly when and why did "dignity" change its meaning? And before this change, was it truly the case that we lacked a conception of human worth akin to the one that "dignity" now represents? In this volume, leading scholars across a range of disciplines attempt to answer such questions by clarifying the presently murky history of "dignity," from classical Greek thought through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment to the present day.

Dignity in Adversity

Dignity in Adversity
Author: Seyla Benhabib
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-05-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0745659713

The language of human rights has become the public vocabulary of our contemporary world. Ironically, as the political influence of human rights has grown, their philosophical justification has become ever more controversial. Building on a theory of discourse ethics and communicative rationality, this book addresses the politics and philosophy of human rights against the background of the broader social transformations that are shaping the modern world. Rejecting the reduction of international human rights to the Trojan horse of a neo-liberal empire's bid for world power, as well as the conservative objections to legal cosmopolitanism as encroachments upon democratic sovereignty, Benhabib develops two key concepts to move beyond these false antitheses. International human rights norms need contextualization in specific polities through processes of what she calls 'democratic iterations.' Furthermore, such norms have a 'jurisgenerative power,' in that they enable new actors to enter fields of social and political contestation; they promote new vocabularies for public claim-making and anticipate a justice to come. Ranging over themes such as sovereignty, citizenship, genocide, European anti-semitism, the crisis of the nation-state, and the 'scarf affair' in contemporary Europe and Turkey, this major new book by one of our leading political theorists reflects upon the political transformations of our times and makes a compelling case for a cosmopolitanism without illusions.

Human Dignity in Asia

Human Dignity in Asia
Author: Jimmy Chiashin Hsu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108835740

Interdisciplinary exploration of Asian understandings of human dignity and human rights in courts, religion, and socio-political changes.