Dignity, Rank, and Rights

Contributor(s): Waldron, Jeremy (Author), Dan-Cohen, Meir (Editor)

ISBN: 9780199915439

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Hardcover

$83.00

Pub Date: October 31, 2012

Dewey: 128.3

LCCN: 2012000941

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.80" H x 8.00" L x 5.40" W ( 0.66 lbs) 176 pages

BISAC Categories:

Philosophy | Movements | Humanism | Ethics and Moral Philosophy | Political

Series: Berkeley Tanner Lectures

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Together these two lectures by Jeremy Waldron illuminate the relation between dignity conceived as the ground of rights and dignity conceived as the content of rights; they also illuminate important ideas about dignity as noble bearing and dignity as the subject of a right against degrading treatment; and they help us understand the sense in which dignity is better conceived as a status than as a kind of value.

Review Quotes: "Dignity, Rank, and Rights is an unusual, and unusually refreshing, exercise in legal philosophy... his account of dignity as a legal status is meticulously researched, engages with a broad collection of thinkers and theories, and offers real insights into dignity's legal dimensions." -Michigan Law Review

"Waldron's take on human dignity is novel. It contains a bold inversion of almost all philosophical treatments of dignity as something like a metaphysical ground for moral claims. Waldron eschews this approach by understanding dignity as a substantive and structural feature of the way that legal orders establish rank and status...this bold approach allows Waldron to move forward a much-needed philosophical conversation about this deeply interesting and important concept."
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