Humanity without Dignity: Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (501 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072FTTL3X |
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| Number of Pages | : | 358 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rather than focus on the basis for equality, we should focus on inequality: Why and when is it wrong to treat others as inferior? Moral equality, he writes, is best explained by a rejection of cruelty.. Why are all persons due equal respect? Andrea Sangiovanni rejects the view that human dignity is grounded in our capacities for reason, love, etc
. Andrea Sangiovanni is Reader in Philosophy at King’s College London
Skeptical of rationalistic frameworks, Andrea Sangiovanni asks us to start from a consideration of human vulnerability and of the wrongness of treating others as inferior. Illustrating the approach with the example of discrimination, and extending it to a detailed account of human rights, Sangiovanni has made a highly original and impressively thoughtful contribution to our understanding of the basis of human equality. And these, in turn, are objectionable when and because they involve social cruelty, understood as an assault on another’s capacity to develop and maintain the integrity of their sense of self. Rather than supposing that our commitment to the moral equality of all is based on an appeal to an account of human dignity, Sangiovanni puts forward a radical alternative that starts from an explanation of why it is wrong to treat another as an inferior. Sangiovanni offers an alternative account and explores in great detail and with much