Three Crucial Turns on the Road to an Adequate Understanding of Human Dignity

Stoecker, Ralf

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“…Following a suggestion by Ralf Stoecker, one should thus "start from situations which we are inclined to describe as violations of human dignity, and then ask what it is that makes it so appealing to use this concept." 33 The latter task is then delegated to the natural good theory under consideration: Nussbaum's capabilities approach. The negative occurrences of the concept serve as external constraints to characterize its content-they are the ones that have to be covered by any conception of dignity that aims at the general concept.…”

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Natural Good Theories and the Value of Human Dignity

Muders

2016

Camb Q Healthc Ethics

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One of the widely recognized facts about human dignity is its vastly divergent applicability-from highly controversial issues in bioethics to broader topics in political philosophy. A group of theories that this article subsumes under the header "natural good theories" appears to be especially fitted for normatively multifaceted notions like dignity. However, the heavy normative weight the concept of dignity has to bear due to the central position it occupies within these theories creates its own difficulties. As is shown in a discussion of Martha Nussbaum's capability conception of dignity, dignity appears to be unable to mirror the special normative relevance people want to assign to it in cases of great moral misconduct. The article provides a suggestion on how to solve this problem by means of paradigmatic cases that work as material constraints regarding the exact boundaries of dignity violations.

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Natural Good Theories and the Value of Human Dignity

Muders

2016

Camb Q Healthc Ethics

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“…Da es zentral für unser Selbstverständnis ist, dass wir uns als Würdenträger behandeln, müssen wir auch bereit sein, uns wechselseitig dabei zu unterstützen, unsere Würde zu bewahren. Offenkundig ist dies bei Menschen, die noch nicht, nicht mehr oder überhaupt niemals in der Lage sind, sich um ihre eigene Würde zu kümmern (Stoecker 2002;Stoecker i.E.). Im Grunde befi ndet sich aber jeder von uns immer wieder in Situationen, in denen wir auf die aktive Mithilfe unseres sozialen Umfelds angewiesen sind, um unsere Würde aufrechtzuerhalten.…”

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Die Pflicht, dem Menschen seine Würde zu erhalten (2010)

Stoecker¹

2019

Theorie Und Praxis Der Menschenwürde

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“…European moral philosophies in the Enlightenment period played an important role in shaping the ideas of humanitarianism. Immanuel Kant expanded on the idea that all human beings should be treated as free and equal by adding a categorical imperative or unbreakable moral rule that “every rational being” should be treated as an end in themselves and not a means to an end (Stoecker ). This constituted a powerful ethical critique of slavery and contributed to the emergence of the antislavery movement, widely seen as a precursor to a form of humanitarianism which seeks to address the structural causes of suffering (Barnett and Weiss ).…”

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Review of Humanitarian Refuge in the United Kingdom: Sanctuary, Asylum, and the Refugee Crisis

Ibrahim

Howarth

2018

Politics & Policy

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This article traces the U.K.'s tepid response to the recent refugee crisis confronting Europe today and reviews Britain's approach to provide sanctuary from its ideological/historical origins to its policy enactments over time (1905‐2016). That approach resonates with the deep tensions the issue of immigration raises within the nation state and the intense uncoupling of refuge and sanctuary from its humanitarian initiatives. We juxtapose the U.K. government's engagement with the refugee crisis against its “tradition of humanitarianism” in which Britain has idealized itself as sanctuary to those who have fled from persecution, torture, or conflict. This historic ideal of refuge has been challenged with numerous immigration and asylum‐related policies as well as increased securitization of border controls in response to the changing political context since 1905. We argue that “sanctuary” is a diminished and contentious component of its present‐day humanitarianism involving increased securitization and asylum policies with stringent immigration controls. We trace the U.K.'s harsh and restrictive stance toward the refugee and the asylum seeker through a series of policies from the Aliens Act in 1905 to the Dubs Amendment of 2016 which seek to delegitimize refugees, enact tighter barriers to entry, and cast them as economic “migrants” and as suspect figures in a post‐9/11 world. Related Articles Related Media AmeliaGentleman. . “‘What Crime Have I Committed to be Held Like This?’: Yarl's Wood.” The Guardian. March 3. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/03/inside-yarls-wood-detention-centre-asylum-seekers-abuse-suicide MariaPolachowska. . “Kindertransport: A Journey to Life.” BBC Newsnight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqP0uVSj3bQ UNHCR. . “Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2016.” http://www.unhcr.org/uk/statistics/unhcrstats/5943e8a34/global-trends-forced-displacement-2016.html

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Three Crucial Turns on the Road to an Adequate Understanding of Human Dignity

Cited by 25 publications

References 6 publications

Natural Good Theories and the Value of Human Dignity

Natural Good Theories and the Value of Human Dignity

Die Pflicht, dem Menschen seine Würde zu erhalten (2010)

Review of Humanitarian Refuge in the United Kingdom: Sanctuary, Asylum, and the Refugee Crisis

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