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Oxford Human Dignity and Human Rights 2019 Edition by Pablo Gilabert
Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it features prominently in international human rights documents. But what is human dignity, why is it important, and what is its relationship to human rights?_x000D__x000D_This book offers a sophisticated and comprehensive defence of the view that human dignity is the moral heart of human rights. First, it clarifies the network of concepts associated with dignity. Paramount within this network is a core notion of human dignity as an inherent, non-instrumental, egalitarian, and high-priority normative status of human persons. People have this status in virtue of their valuable human capacities rather than as a result of their national origin and other conventional_x000D_features. Second, it shows how human dignity gives rise to an inspiring ideal of solidaristic empowerment, which calls us to support people's pursuit of a flourishing life by affirming both negative duties not to block or destroy, and positive duties to protect and facilitate, the development and_x000D_exercise of the valuable capacities at the basis of their dignity. The most urgent of these duties are correlative to human rights. Third, this book illustrates how the proposed dignitarian approach allows us to articulate the content, justification, and feasible implementation of specific human rights, including contested ones, such as the rights to democratic political participation and to decent labour conditions. Finally, this book's dignitarian approach helps illuminate the arc of humanist_x000D_justice, identifying both the difference and the continuity between the basic requirements of human rights and more expansive requirements of social justice such as those defended by liberal egalitarians and democratic socialists._x000D__x000D_Human dignity is indeed the moral heart of human rights. Understanding it enables us to defend human rights as the urgent ethical and political project that puts humanity first._x000D_ Table of Contents :- _x000D_
1: Introduction_x000D_
Part I: Preliminary Debates: The Relations Between Human Rights and Political Practice, Feasibility, and Power_x000D_
2: Humanist and Political Perspectives on Human Rights_x000D_
3: The Feasibility of Human Rights_x000D_
4: Human Rights and Power_x000D_
Part II: The Dignitarian Approach_x000D_
5: Understanding Human Dignity in Human Rights_x000D_
6: Defending the Significance of Human Dignity_x000D_
7: Dignity and Solidaristic Empowerment_x000D_
8: The Dignitarian Approach as a Program_x000D_
Part III: Implications of the Dignitarian Approach_x000D_
9: Labor Rights_x000D_
10: Political Rights_x000D_
11: Minimalist vs. Expansive Views of Human Rights: Dignity and the Arc of Humanist Justice_x000D_