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Overcoming Doctrinal School Thought: A Unifying Approach to Human Dignity
Author(s) -
Gisbertz Philipp
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/raju.12204
Subject(s) - dignity , autonomy , vagueness , meaning (existential) , identity (music) , epistemology , personality , sociology , personal identity , social psychology , psychology , law , philosophy , political science , self , aesthetics , linguistics , fuzzy logic
The concept of human dignity is criticized due to its vagueness, but by discussing the most important schools of thought, we can identify a core meaning that is common to most understandings of human dignity: Whether we conceptualize human dignity in terms of autonomy, self‐respect, social acts, or equal status, we always refer to some kind of personal identity. This personal identity consists in those aspects that we consider to be constitutive of our individual personality. Instead of remaining within doctrinal school thought, this core meaning can be taken as a common denominator for human dignity discourse.