Dimensions of Dignity The Moral Importance of Being Human
Is membership of our species important in itself, or is it just important to have the properties that a normal grown-up human being has? A value subjectivist may argue for a special human value proceeding from the assumption that most of us believe or sense that being human is something important pe...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1998, 1998
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1998 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I: Problem and Method
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methodological Background
- II: Direct Importance
- 3. A “Standard Attitude” (SA)
- 4. The Direct Value of Being Human
- 5. SA Examined
- 6. Elements in The Phenomenology of SA
- 7. Tooley’s Arguments Against SA
- 8. Examples Supporting SA
- 9. Critique of Arguments for SA
- III: Indirect Importance
- 10. Peter Carruthers’ Contractualism
- 11. Peter Singer on Killing Persons and Non-Persons
- Summary and Conclusions
- References