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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Taking Human Dignity More Humanely
Aniceto Masferrersubject
Human rights060106 history of social sciencesmedia_common.quotation_subjectPhilosophy05 social sciences050109 social psychologyEnvironmental ethics06 humanities and the artsLegal historyInternational lawDignityExpression (architecture)0501 psychology and cognitive sciences0601 history and archaeologyPhilosophy of lawConstitutional lawAutonomymedia_commondescription
The chapter argues that Kantian autonomy has sometimes been misunderstood, as if Kant would have viewed any choice as lawful, whatever its content might be. It should be noted that Kant followed earlier thinkers who had already found human rights (or natural rights) in the ‘dignity of human nature’. Thus Kant was not the first thinker to connect human rights with dignity, and the latter with human nature. The link between human rights, human nature and the expression ‘dignity’ appeared in the eighteenth century, but earlier than Kant.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 |