Dignity in the 21st Century Middle East and West /

This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book offers a unique and insightful analysis of Western and Middle Eastern concepts of dignity and illustrates them with examples of everyday life. Dignity in the 21st Century - Middle East and West is unique and insightful for a range of reasons....

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Hlavní autoři: Schroeder, Doris (Autor), Bani-Sadr, Abol‐Hassan (Autor)
Korporativní autor: SpringerLink (Online service)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edice:SpringerBriefs in Philosophy,
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On-line přístup:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58020-3
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Obsah:
  • The quest for dignity
  • Dignity in the west
  • Dignity’s omnipresence
  • A very short history of dignity
  • Immanuel kant’s concept of dignity
  • Dignity in legal instruments
  • Dignity in bioethics
  • Disambiguating the main concepts of dignity
  • What kind of concept is dignity?
  • Is dignity a virtue?
  • Is dignity an individual characteristic not covered by virtues?
  • Is dignity intrinsic to human beings?
  • Is dignity god-given? The example of christianity
  • Testing and critiquing the taxonomy of dignity
  • Dignity and vagueness
  • Could dignity be replaced with respect for persons?
  • A common core of dignity building blocks?
  • Concluding on the dignity riddles
  • Dignity in the middle east.-islam – A brief Overview of a world religion
  • The prophet
  • The koran and the hadîths
  • Islam in everyday life
  • Introduction to dignity in the koran
  • Dignity and power
  • Dignity and freedom
  • How dignity becomes realisable
  • Middle east and west – can common ground be found?
  • Dignity – a fictional dialogue.