Humanity without dignity : moral equality, respect, and human rights /
Liberalism and our modern allegiance to human rights rest on a foundational commitment to moral equality. But why, given our differences, must we always treat one another as equals? Most who have attempted to answer this question have appealed to the idea of dignity, the idea that all human beings p...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Part one. Foundations: Against dignity
- Moral equality, respect, and cruelty
- Why and when is discrimination wrong?
- Part two. Human rights: The concept of human rights: the broad view
- International legal human rights and equal moral status
- Fundamental rights, indivisibility, and hierarchy among human rights.