Interdisciplinary perspectives on human dignity and human rights

The concept of dignity is essential to discourses of human rights, and to understand what dignity means and requires, we must address a number of difficult questions with input from a wide range of disciplines. How is human dignity protected, maintained, or ensured in a rapidly changing world? What...

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Other Authors Mahmoudi, Hoda (Editor), Penn, Michael L. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
Subjects
Human rights.
Dignity.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781789738230
9781789738216
DOI10.1108/9781789738216
Physical Description1 online resource (viii, 185 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Hoda Mahmoudi Section One. Theory/discourse
  • Chapter 1. Universal consciousness of human dignity / Hoda Mahmoudi
  • Chapter 2. Towards a principle of human dignity / Suheil Bushrui
  • Chapter 3. Reframing the concept of human dignity / Michael Karlberg
  • Chapter 4. Promoting human rights and human dignity in an Axial Age / Michael L. Penn, Tri Nguyen
  • Chapter 5. How does dignity ground human rights? / Jack Donnelly Section Two. Practice/action
  • Chapter 6. Honor-based violence in Pakistan and its eradication through the development of a cultural and jurisprudential ethos of human dignity / Sania Anwar
  • Chapter 7. (In)dignity via (mis)representation: politics, power, and documentary film / Justin de Leon
  • Chapter 8. Dignifying education: the emergence of teachers as transcultural messengers / Barbara Finkelstein
  • Chapter 9. Cultivating human rights and protecting human dignity by nurturing altruism and a life of service: integrating U.N. sustainable development goals into school curricula / Michael Haslip, Michael Penn.

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