Human dignity and human being

Perspectives on Human Dignity: A Conversation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 19-25

  Malpas, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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EID: 79957073129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6281-0_3     Document Type: Chapter

References (7)

1. In this document, 'human dignity and human rights' are the subject of Article 3, while ' autonomy and individual responsibility' are dealt with under Article 5.
2. Although it is worth noting that Kant's Critical Philosophy also sets clear limits on the nature and extent of the ontological or metaphysical claims that might be relevant here.
3. Davidson, 'Three Varieties of Knowledge', in Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001), pp.205-220.
4. See my Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
5. Immanuel Kant, The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 4:421.
6. See Roy F. Baumeister, 'Violent Pride', Scientific American, 284 (2001), pp.96-101.
7. See Elaine Scarry's account of the structure of torture in The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp.27-59.