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Neither Beast Nor God

By Gilbert Meilaender

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Neither Beast Nor God

By Gilbert Meilaender

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Appeals to “human dignity” are at the core of many of the most contentious social and political issues of our time. But these appeals suggest different and at times even contradictory ways of understanding the term. Is dignity something we all share equally, and therefore the reason we all ought to be treated as equals? Or is it what distinguishes some greater and more admirable human beings from the rest? What notion of human dignity should inform our private judgments and our public life? In Neither Beast Nor God, Gilbert Meilaender elaborates the philosophical, social, theological, and political implications of the question of dignity, and suggests a path through the thicket. Meilaender, a noted theologian and a prominent voice in America’s bioethics debates, traces the ways in which notions of dignity shape societies, families, and individual lives, and incisively cuts through some common confusions that cloud our thinking on key moral and ethical questions. The dignity of humanity and the dignity of the person, he argues, are distinct but deeply connected—and only by grasping them both can we find our way to a meaningful understanding of the human condition.
Product details
Number of Pages:
180
Release Date:
2009-09-29
Publication Date:
2009-09-29
Publisher:
Encounter Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1594032572
ISBN13:
9781594032578
Weight:
350 g
Height:
164 cm
Width:
236 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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