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.
發表於2024-11-23
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圖書標籤: 政治哲學 倫理學 法理 法哲學 新書記 康德 2012
盡管作為講座本身沒有專論的論證細緻,不過很喜歡這種迴應—再迴應的形式。反觀中國的法理學論文,以自說自話居多。
評分淺顯易讀
評分淺顯易讀
評分Waldron在這本書中提供瞭一種對尊嚴的理解,並檢討瞭這種尊嚴觀和法律之間的內在關聯。不過,我們對尊嚴的理解似乎還可以進一步細緻化,或許在政治理論上就能得齣更深入的見解。
評分Waldron的觀點非常新穎,將dignity與high-ranked status聯係起來,並明確限定在法學基礎(權利義務集)之上。但至少這本書的論證說服力還顯得不是很夠。三篇評論當屬羅森那篇最精彩。
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