Human dignity and human worth

Perspectives on Human Dignity: A Conversation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 9-18

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References (31)

1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (http://www.un.org/Overview/rights. html).
2. 'Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with Regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine', ETS no.164 (http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/ CadreListeTraites.htm).
3. Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977), pp.198-199.
4. Ruth Macklin, 'Dignity is a Useless Concept', British Medical Journal 327 (2003), pp.1419-1420.
5. John Harris and John Sulston, 'Genetic Equity', Nature Reviews Genetics 5 (2004), pp.796-800.
6. see Daniel P. Sulmasy, 'Death and Human Dignity', Linacre Quarterly 61 (November 1994), pp.27-36;
7. 'Death With Dignity: What Does It Mean?' Josephinum Journal of Theology 4 (1997), pp.13-23.
8. Charles Trinkaus, 'The Renaissance Idea of the Dignity of Man', in: Philip P. Weiner, ed., Dictionary of the History of Ideas, vol. IV (New York: Charles Scribner's, 1973), pp.136-147.
9. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2nd edn., 1221a.8, trans. Michael Woods (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p.17.
10. M.T. Griffin and E.M. Atkins, 'Notes on Translation', in Cicero: On Duties (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp.xlvi-xlvii.
11. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, 'Oration on the Dignity of Man', in: Ernst Cassirer (ed.), The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, trans. Elizabeth L. Forbes (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1948), pp.224-225.
12. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, X., Richard Tuck, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p.63.
13. Ibid., pp.63-64.
14. Immanuel Kant, 'The Metaphysics of Morals, Part II: The Metaphysical Principles of Virtue', Ak462, in Ethical Philosophy, transl. James W. Ellington (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1983), p.127.
15. Ibid., Ak419-420, pp.80-81.
16. Ibid., Ak462, p.127.
17. Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum: On Capital and Labor Encyclical, 15 May 1891, http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13rerum.htm
18. Sulmasy, 'Death with Dignity: What does It Mean?' op. cit.
19. Ibid. The notion of derivative dignity is a later development of this theory and is presented at greater length in Daniel P. Sulmasy, 'Dignity and the Human as a Natural Kind', in: C.R. Taylor and R. Dell'Oro (eds), Health and Human Flourishing (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006).
20. Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Ak 421, trans. James W. Ellington (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1981), p.30.
21. R.M. Hare, Moral Thinking: Its Levels, Methods, and Point (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981), pp.107-116.
22. Garth Baker-Fletcher, Somebodyness: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Theory of Dignity, Harvard dissertations in divinity, No. 31 (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1993), p.23.
23. These ideas are developed at greater length in Daniel P. Sulmasy, 'Death, Dignity, and the Theory of Value', Ethical Perspectives, 9 (2003), pp.103-118
24. (reprinted in: P., Schotsmans and T. Meulenbergs (eds), Euthanasia and Palliative Care in the Low Countries (Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2005), pp.95-119;
25. also in Daniel P. Sulmasy, 'Dignity and the Human as a Natural Kind', n. 14, above.
26. Holmes Rolston III, Environmental Ethics (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1988), p.116.
27. Credit for initiation of the discussion of natural kinds is usually given to Saul Kripke, in his two essays, 'Identity and Necessity', in: Milton K. Munitz, ed., Identity and Individuation (New York: New York University Press, 1971), pp.135-164
28. and 'Naming and Necessity', in: Gilbert Harman and Donald Davidson (eds), Semantics of Natural Language (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: D. Reidel, 1972), pp.253-355.
29. For a good contemporary approach to the concept of natural kinds, see David Wiggins, Sameness and Substance (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980), pp.77-101
30. and his Sameness and Substance Renewed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
31. Daniel P. Sulmasy, 'Dignity, Rights, Health Care, and Human Flourishing', in: G. Diaz Pintos and David N. Weisstub (eds), Human Rights and Health Care(Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2006).