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  3. Social Thought and Rival Claims to the Moral Ideal of Dignity
Publisher:
Anthem Press
Online publication date:
June 2018
Print publication year:
2018
Online ISBN:
9781783087853
Subjects:
History of Philosophy, Philosophy
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Book description

The relation between changes in society over historical time and the concomitant transformation of a concept that depicts something of intrinsic value in that society is complex and contingent. 'Social Thought and Rival Claims to the Moral Ideal of Dignity' attempts to see if we can get any closer to a rounded, three-dimensional view of dignity by drawing on the historical record, on philosophy and social thought more widely and, finally, on contributions that present dignity in a rather more public and political light. In thus tracing the fortunes of human dignity we find that it has not always been viewed as a straightforwardly laudable principle. The idea and ideal of dignity now appears to have quite an ambiguous status in social thought and this title explores the reasons lying behind that particular development.

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