Humanity Without Dignity : Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 103724298
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- ISBN
- 9780674049215
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Humanity without Dignity (Harvard, xv, 286) grapples with one of the central puzzles in modern moral and political philosophy. We are familiar with debates on socioeconomic and political equality. But we are also, it is often said, equals in a more basic sense: equals in dignity or status. This monograph argues that a range of views fail in explaining why we have a special dignity or status. It therefore seeks to overturn a founding commitment of modern liberalism. The monograph then proposes a new conception of our commitment to basic equality. None of the chapters have been previously published.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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