United States. Human cloning and human dignity: an ethical inquiry

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 153
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Human Cloning ◽  
Ethical Inquiry

I. Teaching and Theologizing about Religion and Genocide: Some Reflections

Horizons ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-76
Author(s):  
Victoria Barnett
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Religious Educators ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Violent Extremism

A quarter of a century has passed since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and the 1995 genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The anniversaries of these tragedies beckon us to reflect on the responsibility of theologians, scholars of religion, and religious educators to confront genocide. How should scholars use the tools of these disciplines to educate about genocide responsibly and promote peace and respect for human dignity and rights in the wake of such tragedy? How might they utilize their intellectual, spiritual, and material resources to help prevent violent extremism and genocide? Four scholars who have profoundly engaged these questions in their academic work generously agreed to contribute to this roundtable. One of them writes directly from his context of Rwanda, while another writes from her homeland in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The two scholars based in the United States have also systematically confronted the problem of ethnic and religious hatred and genocide, focusing on the Holocaust and the Bosnian genocide, respectively. All four contributors serve as remarkable examples of theologians and scholars of religion who have used their training and skills to promote a world where “never again” is not merely a slogan.

Executing Humanity: Legal Consciousness and Capital Punishment in the United States, 1915–1940

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 929-976
Author(s):  
Daniel LaChance
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
Abstract Entity ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Collective Imagination

From the 1830s to the 1930s, elites across the United States increasingly privatized executions and standardized execution protocols. These changes reflected and reinforced a more bureaucratic image of the state as an abstract entity run by professionals operating in rule-bound roles rather than particular actors governing in an unsystematic way. After this period of change, the aesthetics of the execution ceremony had so thoroughly changed that the death penalty had the potential to inspire critiques of the modern state as cold, detached, and callous. It rarely did, however. Changes to state killing threatened to diminish the recognition of human dignity in the nation's execution chambers were countered by melodramatic popular renderings of executions that preserved their sacred, traditional character. Toward the end of this period of change, from 1915 to 1940, playwrights, screenwriters, and journalists maintained executions as events in which the humanity of the state that killed and the condemned who died was constantly foregrounded, even as execution modes and protocols became rationalized and machine-like. Reflecting this ethos, images of condemned men in the nation's collective imagination became disproportionately white.

scholarly journals Legislation of Human Cloning in the United States

Circulation ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 97 (19) ◽  
pp. 1889-1889
Author(s):  
Ruth SoRelle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Cloning

Beneath International Famine Relief in Ethiopia: The United States, Ethiopia, and the Debate over Relief Aid, Development Assistance, and Human Rights

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Kissi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Famine Relief ◽  
Mutual Antagonism ◽  
Ethiopian Government ◽  
The Government

Abstract:This article analyzes the conflicting interpretations of famine, relief aid, development assistance, and human rights by the Ethiopian and American governments, and the complexity of each government's policy and motives. It argues that in the 1970s and 1980s, the Carter and Reagan administrations faced the moral and political dilemma of assisting people in Ethiopia who were in desperate need with-out strengthening the hostile Ethiopian government in the process. And the government of Ethiopia had to make the difficult choice of accepting American aid on American terms at a period in Ethiopian history when doing so was politically suicidal. That America provided the aid and Ethiopia accepted it exemplifies the conduct of international relations in which human dignity compels nations to accommodate one another even within the boundaries of their mutual antagonism.

Fundamental Values of Criminal Procedure

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-42
Author(s):  
Richard Lippke
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Fundamental Values

This chapter examines the fundamental values that ought to inform criminal procedure. More specifically, it considers what we ideally should want from the rules and procedures that exist in legal jurisdictions throughout the world. Three fundamental values are discussed—human dignity, truth, and fairness—and the ways in which they can be upheld or subverted by criminal justice practices. Illustrations are drawn primarily from the United States, but reference is also made to criminal procedure in other countries, including those in the civil law tradition. The article concludes by analyzing two further candidates for inclusion on the list of fundamental values of criminal procedure: the “effectiveness” of criminal procedure and the value of “expertise” that highlights the distinction between the common law and civil law traditions.

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