Andrea Sangiovanni

Humanity Without Dignity

Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

Why are all persons due equal respect? Andrea Sangiovanni rejects the view that human dignity is grounded in our capacities for reason, love, etc. Rather than focus on the basis for equality, we should focus on inequality: Why and when is it wrong to treat others as inferior? Moral equality, he writes, is best explained by a rejection of cruelty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 167mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780674049215
• ISBN-10: 0674049217
• Artikelnr.: 46474517

Autorenporträt

Andrea Sangiovanni

Inhaltsangabe

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Introduction Guide for the Reader A Note on Methodology Part I. Foundations 1. Against Dignity Desiderata The Aristocratic Tradition The Christian Tradition The Kantian Tradition The Regress Reading The Address Reading The Distinction between Basic Moral Status and Equal Moral Status 2. Moral Equality, Respect, and Cruelty Treating as Inferior Cruelty Respect Consent Variation and Status Punishment Conclusion 3. When and Why Is Discrimination Wrong? The Concept of Discrimination Discrimination and Social Meanings Demeaning and Disrespecting A Fresh Start: The Expressive Harm Account Stigma and Dehumanization in Racial Discrimination& Reverse Discrimination Infantilization, Objectification, and Instrumentalization in Sex Discrimination Infantilization Objectification and Instrumentalization Indirect Discrimination Part II. Human Rights 4. The Concept of Human Rights: The Broad View Desiderata Against Orthodox Views Against Political Views A Merely Verbal Disagreement The Concept The Diversity That Stands between Concept and Conception Avoiding Merely Verbal Disagreement The Fidelity Desideratum Conclusion 5. International Legal Human Rights and Equal Moral Status A Defense of the Grounding View The Obligation to Establish and Maintain an International Legal Human Rights System The Duty of Reciprocal Protection and International Legal Human Rights Looking Ahead Basic Rights Fundamental Rights Indivisibility and Hierarchy among Human Rights Notes References Index

Rezensionen

In Humanity without Dignity, one of the most original and powerful political philosophers of our time presents his moral groundwork. Skeptical of rationalistic frameworks, Andrea Sangiovanni asks us to start from a consideration of human vulnerability and of the wrongness of treating others as inferior. The result is a comprehensive and humane vision of morality and politics for earthly, social beings-a vision that asks us to think anew about who and what we are. What more can we expect of a great piece of philosophy?
-- Rainer Forst, Goethe University Frankfurt
This is an important book on a much-discussed subject: what does talk about human equality amount to? Many answers are formulated in terms of dignity, which is often grounded in the idea that there is some value-bestowing property we all share in equal measure. Sangiovanni offers an alternative account and explores in great detail and with much sophistication what it implies for the debate about human rights. Anybody interested in human rights should pay attention.
-- Mathias Risse, Harvard University
In this erudite and superbly written book Andrea Sangiovanni draws on sources from philosophy, literature, international law, and social science to present a new theory of equality. Rather than supposing that our commitment to the moral equality of all is based on an appeal to an account of human dignity, Sangiovanni puts forward a radical alternative that starts from an explanation of why it is wrong to treat another as an inferior. It is wrong, he argues, when the treatment involves stigmatization, dehumanization, infantilization, instrumentalization, or objectification. And these, in turn, are objectionable when and because they involve social cruelty, understood as an assault on another's capacity to develop and maintain the integrity of their sense of self. Illustrating the approach with the example of discrimination, and extending it to a detailed account of human rights, Sangiovanni has made a highly original and impressively thoughtful contribution to our understanding of the basis of human equality.
-- Jonathan Wolff, University of Oxford