The Issue of Human Dignity in the Past and Present of Russian Thought

2015 ◽  
pp. 73-77
Author(s):  
Alexey P. Kozyrev
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
The Past

Technic Self-Determination

2014 ◽  
pp. 203-224
Author(s):  
Franco Cortese
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Will ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
Enhancement Technologies ◽  
The Human Condition

This chapter addresses concerns that the development and proliferation of Human Enhancement Technologies (HET) will be (a) dehumanizing and a threat to human dignity and (b) a threat to our autonomy and sovereignty as individuals. Contrarily, HET can be shown to constitute the most effective foreseeable means of increasing the autonomy and sovereignty of individual members of society. Furthermore, this chapter elaborates the position that the use of HET exemplifies—and indeed even intensifies—our most human capacity and faculty, namely the desire for increased self-determination (i.e., control over the determining circumstances and conditions of our own selves and lives), which is referred to as the will toward self-determination. Based upon this position, arguably, the use of HET bears fundamental ontological continuity with the human condition in general and with the historically ubiquitous will toward self-determination in particular as it is today and has been in the past. HET will not be a dehumanizing force, but will rather serve to increase the very capacity and characteristic that characterizes us as human more accurately than anything else.

scholarly journals “Oh, Dignity too?” Said the Robot: Human Dignity as the Basis for the Governance of Robotics

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lexo Zardiashvili ◽  
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Personal Care ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Wheelchair Users ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Contact ◽  
European Institutions

AbstractHealthcare robots enable practices that seemed far-fetched in the past. Robots might be the solution to bridge the loneliness that the elderly often experience; they may help wheelchair users walk again, or may help navigate the blind. European Institutions, however, acknowledge that human contact is an essential aspect of personal care and that the insertion of robots could dehumanize caring practices. Such instances of human–robot interactions raise the question to what extent the use and development of robots for healthcare applications can challenge the dignity of users. In this article, therefore, we explore how different robot applications in the healthcare domain support individuals in achieving ‘dignity’ or pressure it. We argue that since healthcare robot applications are novel, their associated risks and impacts may be unprecedented and unknown, thus triggering the need for a conceptual instrument that is binding and remains flexible at the same time. In this respect, as safety rules and data protection are often criticized to lack flexibility, and technology ethics to lack enforceability, we suggest human dignity as the overarching governance instrument for robotics, which is the inviolable value upon which all fundamental rights are grounded.

The Sleeping Night‐Watchman and Some Alternatives: Citizenship, Participation and Bases of Democratic Legitimacy in Britain

1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-360
Author(s):  
Robert Pinkney
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
The State ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Islamic Fundamentalism ◽  
Democratic Transitions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
The World

WE TAKE IT FOR GRANTED THAT THE SURVIVAL OF THE STATE DEPENDS on democratic consent. With the demise of Marxism and fascism, Diamond suggests that, apart from Islamic fundamentalism, democracy is the only model with ideological legitimacy. And Fukuyama asserts that ‘the democratic transitions of the past generation could not have occurred had not populations around the world finally become conscious of the fact that liberal democracy alone provides the possibility of fully rational recognition of human dignity’.

scholarly journals Die susters van die broederkerk - 'n Verhaal van vrouens in die Morawiese kerk in Suid-Afrika

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-374
Author(s):  
C Landman
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
Moravian Church ◽  
Work Done

The sisters of the Brethern Church. A story of women in the Moravian Church in South AfricaThe story of early women converts of the Moravian Church is told. It is argued that this church, since it commenced with missionary work in South Africa in 1737, showed a positive and reconstructive attitude towards women. Presently many so-called coloured women hold high positions in the ministry and moderamen of this church. It is therefore appropriate thatNelson Mandela called his Cape Town residence "Genadendal" in commemoration of the first Moravian mission slation in South Africa and the work done there for the past three cellluries in service of human dignity. As such it is also appropriate to dedicaTe this ankle to Carl Borchardt for his inclusive attitude towards women colleagues.

scholarly journals Back to Westminster: A new transatlantic agenda to defend democracy

European View ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-200
Author(s):  
Igor Merheim-Eyre
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Democracy Promotion ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

Across the transatlantic area and, indeed, across the democratic world, democracy is under strain from domestic and external factors, while throughout the world, authoritarian and totalitarian forces continue to quash people’s desire for freedom and human dignity. In this context, this article takes stock of the ongoing challenges, and argues for a renewed transatlantic agenda that returns to the spirit of President Ronald Reagan’s 1982 Westminster Speech. It should achieve this by developing an ambitious programme that defends democracy within the transatlantic area and supports people’s desire for freedom globally, while avoiding the dogmatic approaches and ossification that have characterised democracy promotion over the past two decades.

scholarly journals Contours of National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe

2021 ◽  
pp. 174-186
Author(s):  
Jernej Letnar Černič
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
The Past ◽  
Business And Human Rights ◽  
Wide Range

Central and Eastern Europe has been often overseen in the debates on business and humanrights. Countries in the regions share a common history, experience and culture. Human rights andfundamental freedoms were in the past systematically and generally violated. Since democratisation,countries have suffered from a wide range of related human rights abuses. Corporations in theregions have often directly and indirectly interfered with the human rights of employees and thewider communities. Business and human rights has in the past lagged behind global developmentsalso in the light of the lack of capacity and general deficient human rights situation. This articledescribes and discusses contours of the National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights of theCzech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Georgia, Ukraine and Slovenia by examining their strengths anddeficiencies. It argues that the field of business and human rights in Central and Eastern Europe hasmade a step forward in the last decade since the adoption of the United Nations Guiding Principleson Business and Human Rights. Nonetheless, human rights should be further translated into practiceto effectively protect human dignity of rights-holders.

scholarly journals Toward A Restoration of Societal Ethos with Reference on Chinua Achebe’s Writings

2020 ◽  
Vol 03 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mexan Serge EPOUNDA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Social Values ◽  
African Literature ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Nigerian Immigrants ◽  
Societal Norms

Traditional oral literature of Africa is counted as one of the most distinctly and varied categories of African literature with Chinua Achebe as pioneer. In his writings, Achebe takes on the roles of social commentator and crusader through the conduit of orature to criticize the devaluation of cultural and societal norms. His later novels can be read imbued with the lamentation of the death of moral and social values in Nigerian society; the unspoken degradation of Nigerian immigrants in Europe and America, and the frequency with which corrupt practices have undermined the nation’s development. This paper examines how Achebe’s writings canvasses for a re-examination of societal ethos, which demands that the contemporary Nigeria settles. Therefore, the necessary actions should be taken in restoring, maintaining and preserving the oral tradition. Preservation is not just limited to keeping the form of oral tradition in the community, but the values that contained in the oral tradition with the past by recovering social, moral and cultural codes for the restoration of human dignity.

scholarly journals “Dignitizing” Free Speech in Israel: The Impact of the Constitutional Revolution on Free Speech Protection

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-856
Author(s):  
Guy E. Carmi
Keyword(s):  
Free Speech ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Constitutional Protection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Model Following ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
Israeli Supreme Court ◽  
Free Speech Rights ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Prior Restraint

This article examines the changes in the approach to the analysis of free speech rights in Israel. It demonstrates the growing shift from the American liberty-based influence in the 1980s to a more dignity-based, and principally Canadian- and German-inspired, model following the adoption of the partial bill of rights in the 1990s. This is demonstrated both by a statistical analysis of the Israeli Supreme Court free speech rulings in the past thirty years and by a substantive analysis of recent rulings in the areas of prior restraint, pornography, and libel. The statistical findings demonstrate that while human dignity rarely played a role in free speech rulings in the past, it plays a significant role today. Another indication of the “dignitization process” lies in the reference to foreign rulings. Moreover, a substantive examination of the Israeli Supreme Court’s free speech rulings from the last decade reveals the dignitization process both in rhetoric and outcomes. This article offers a means of strengthening the protection that free speech receives in Israel by divorcing the constitutional protection of free speech from the concept of human dignity, and by focusing on the value of liberty. This can be achieved by the incorporation of the unenumerated right to free speech via the liberty clause within Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty.

scholarly journals Human dignity and religious freedom in the context of post-secular dialogue

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 66-69
Author(s):  
Tetyana Prodan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The Past

Over the past few years, especially after the events of EuroMaydan, called the Revolution of Dignity. the issue of human dignity is actively discussed in various socio-cultural contexts. In modern scientific discourse, the issue of human dignity is embodied in numerous concepts on the brink of law, ethics, religion and politics. A turning point in the understanding and meaning of human dignity as an egalitarian concept was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), as a consequence of the terrible historical experience after two world wars.

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