Dignity

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Dignity is written by Remy Debes and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190677546 (ISBN 10) and 9780190677541 (ISBN 13).

In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to human dignity. Dignity refers to the fundamental moral worth or status supposedly belonging to all persons equally. But this is relatively new. In this volume, leading scholars across a range of disciplines attempt to clarify the variegated and murky history of "dignity," and explain how it arrived it is current and historically unusual meaning.