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Human Dignity: Philosophical Origin and Scientific Erosion of an Idea

  • Bayertz K
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1590-9_5
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The concept of a specifically human dignity is one of the fundamental philosophical innovations of the Renaissance. Parallel to the emergence of the portrait as an independent artistic genre within the field of painting and the autobiography as a new literary genre,...

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Bayertz, K. (1996). Human Dignity: Philosophical Origin and Scientific Erosion of an Idea (pp. 73–90). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1590-9_5

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