What is dignity from a Western perspective? This chapter provides a short history of dignity in the West, focusing on Immanuel Kant’s concept of dignity, dignity in legal instruments and dignity in bioethics supplemented by fiction, politics and everyday life (e.g. sports). A taxonomy of dignity is developed and illustrated in a diagram.
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Schroeder, D., & Bani-Sadr, A. H. (2017). Dignity in the West. In SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (pp. 9–64). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58020-3_2
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