Dignity, Rank, and Rights

出版者:Oxford University Press

作者:Jeremy Waldron

页数:176

出版时间:2012-10-31

价格:USD 33.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780199915439

图书标签:政治哲学伦理学法理法哲学新书记康德2012

Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings. In these lectures, Jeremy Waldron contrives to combine attractive features of both strands. In the first lecture, Waldron presents a conception of dignity that preserves its ancient association with rank and station, thus allowing him to tap rich historical resources while avoiding what many perceive as the excessive abstraction and dubious metaphysics of the Kantian strand. At the same time he argues for a conception of human dignity that amounts to a generalization of high status across all human beings, and so attains the appealing universality of the Kantian position. The second lecture focuses particularly on the importance of dignity - understood in this way - as a status defining persons' relation to law: their presentation as persons capable of self-applying the law, capable of presenting and arguing a point of view, and capable of responding to law's demands without brute coercion. Together the two lectures illuminate the relation between dignity conceived as the ground of rights and dignity conceived as the content of rights; they also illuminate important ideas about dignity as noble bearing and dignity as the subject of a right against degrading treatment; and they help us understand the sense in which dignity is better conceived as a status than as a kind of value.

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尽管作为讲座本身没有专论的论证细致，不过很喜欢这种回应—再回应的形式。反观中国的法理学论文，以自说自话居多。

尽管作为讲座本身没有专论的论证细致，不过很喜欢这种回应—再回应的形式。反观中国的法理学论文，以自说自话居多。

将康德伦理学中先验论证转化为政治的论证。将尊严理解为一种社会地位，而非仅仅作为不可让渡和交易的价值。沃尔德伦将尊严概念的基础替换为法哲学而非伦理学，但对此过渡分析比较粗糙。将社会地位为sortal与condition，阐明了尊严是一种建构物，但使得社会地位与角色之间的差别模糊。

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将康德伦理学中先验论证转化为政治的论证。将尊严理解为一种社会地位，而非仅仅作为不可让渡和交易的价值。沃尔德伦将尊严概念的基础替换为法哲学而非伦理学，但对此过渡分析比较粗糙。将社会地位为sortal与condition，阐明了尊严是一种建构物，但使得社会地位与角色之间的差别模糊。