Book contents
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Part I The Contours of Dignitarian Humanism
- 1 The Tribunal of Human Dignity
- 2 Some Remarks on Method
- 3 Pressure Points
- 4 Four Concepts of Dignity
- Part II Against Traditional Accounts of Human Dignity
- Part III A Revisionist Approach
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Pressure Points
from Part I - The Contours of Dignitarian Humanism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2021
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Part I The Contours of Dignitarian Humanism
- 1 The Tribunal of Human Dignity
- 2 Some Remarks on Method
- 3 Pressure Points
- 4 Four Concepts of Dignity
- Part II Against Traditional Accounts of Human Dignity
- Part III A Revisionist Approach
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter paints a composite portrait of the leading features of what I call dignitarian humanism. I again stress that there is in fact no single doctrine to which this label refers, still less any canonical understanding of how central dignitarian commitments fit together. For the time being, however, I make the artificial assumption that we can recover the view of a representative “dignitarian humanist” whose position we are seeking to sympathetically reconstruct but critically assess. As the argument proceeds, and we tease out those aspects of dignitarian consciousness that are worth keeping while dropping others, my hope is that we will wind up with a compelling dignitarian view that does have a genuine doctrinal integrity.
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- Human Dignity and Political Criticism , pp. 30 - 50Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021