Phenomenology and Mind

No. 2 (2012): Making the Social World: Social Ontology, Collective Intentionality, and Normativity
Session 3. Normativity and Language

Human Dignity as a Status vs Human Dignity as a Value. A Double Nature

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  • Barbara Malvestiti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-19635

Published 2016-11-27

Keywords

  • human dignity,
  • status,
  • value

How to Cite

Malvestiti, B. (2016). Human Dignity as a Status vs Human Dignity as a Value. A Double Nature. Phenomenology and Mind, (2), 152–159. https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-19635
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Abstract

My paper provides an analysis of two antithetical theories about the nature of human dignity: human dignity as a status, human dignity as a value. Strengths of the theories consist in having developed two relevant traits of human dignity, respectively: human dignity as an object of rights, human dignity as a ground of rights. Weaknesses of the theories consist in both having excluded one of the two elements. A third paradigm will be provided, which tries to explain human dignity both as a status and as a value.

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