Betraying Dignity

Betraying Dignity
Title Betraying Dignity PDF eBook
Author Orit Kamir
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 207
Release 2019-10-31
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1683932048

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What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and "victimhood culture" have in common? Betraying Dignity argues that in the second decade of the twenty-first century, individuals, political parties and nations around the world are abandoning the dignity-based culture we established in the aftermath of two world wars, less than a century ago. Disappointed or intimidated, many turn their backs on the humanitarian, universalistic culture that presumes our inherent human dignity and celebrates it as the basis of every individual's equal human rights. Instead, people and nations are returning to a much older, honor-based cultural structure. Because its ancient logic and mentality take new forms (such as social network shaming and certain aspects of "victimhood culture") -- we fail to recognize them, and overlook the pitfalls of the old honor-based structure. Narrating the history of honor-based societies, this book distinguishes their underlying principle from the post-WWII notion of dignity that underlies human rights. It makes the case that in order to revive and strengthen dignity-based culture, the concept of human dignity must be defined narrowly and succinctly, and enhanced with the principle of respect. Continuing its historical and cultural narrative, the book discusses contemporary phenomena such as al-Qaeda terrorists, shaming via social network, FoMO, and some features of the emerging "victimhood culture". The book pays homage to Erich Fromm's classic Escape from Freedom.

Human Dignity and the Autonomy of Law

Human Dignity and the Autonomy of Law
Title Human Dignity and the Autonomy of Law PDF eBook
Author José Manuel Aroso Linhares
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 300
Release 2022-12-06
Genre Law
ISBN 303114824X

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This book intertwines two major themes in contemporary legal theory – the concepts of human dignity and the problem of the autonomy and limits of the law – while also addressing two other key aspects – the first one concerned with human rights practices and foundations (in their direct connections with the issue of dignity), the second one considering the role that the law’s aspirations attribute to the experience of an autonomous subject-person (and the demands that identify his/her position in the dialectical counterpoint with the rethinking of a community). The diversity of perspectives that each of these themes allows is explored in various contexts and with unmistakable implications concerning juridical validity, rule of law practices, pluralism, political and practical-cultural challenges, and divisive “bio-ethical” issues. This means considering the separation or separability theses between law and morality and the juridically relevant experience of person(hood) as a dialectic between autonomy and responsibility, the orthodox and heterodox images of comparable concreteness and incomparable singularity, the challenges of external points of view and interdisciplinary approaches.

The Legal Aspects of Shaming: An Ancient Sanction in the Modern World

The Legal Aspects of Shaming: An Ancient Sanction in the Modern World
Title The Legal Aspects of Shaming: An Ancient Sanction in the Modern World PDF eBook
Author Meital Pinto
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
Pages 311
Release 2023-09-06
Genre Law
ISBN 1800880227

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Offering an original legal definition of shaming, this incisive book argues for greater attention to shaming by legal scholars and practitioners. Suggesting nuanced procedures to regulate shaming in diverse areas of law, it seeks to make shaming by legal entities legitimate and effective, and to use legal mechanisms to limit inappropriate shaming in non-legal contexts.

The Male Body in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theology

The Male Body in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theology
Title The Male Body in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theology PDF eBook
Author Yakir Englander
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 265
Release 2021-10-07
Genre Religion
ISBN 1725287315

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How does Ultra-Orthodox Jewish literature describe the male body? What does the body represent? What is the ideal male body? This book is a philosophical-theological exploration of the different images of the male body in Ultra-Orthodox literature since the holocaust. The body is not incidental to this community but is the axis by which it tries to understand its meaning and its role in life. In the first part of the book, Yakir Englander explains the "problem of the body" and the different ways that Ultra-Orthodox theology deals with it. These different and even contradictory voices can teach the reader about the shifting of ideas inside Ultra-Orthodox thought in the last decades. The second part of the book focuses on the image of the ideal body and describes how the rabbis train their bodies to reach ultimate form.

A Commentary on the Gospel According to John

A Commentary on the Gospel According to John
Title A Commentary on the Gospel According to John PDF eBook
Author John Lange
Publisher BoD – Books on Demand
Pages 474
Release 2023-03-24
Genre Fiction
ISBN 3382151081

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Human Dignity in Bioethics

Human Dignity in Bioethics
Title Human Dignity in Bioethics PDF eBook
Author Stephen Dilley
Publisher Routledge
Pages 398
Release 2013
Genre Medical
ISBN 0415659310

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This volume brings together a collection of essays that rigorously examine the concept of human dignity from its metaphysical foundations to its polemical deployment in bioethical controversies. It explores the source and meaning of human dignity, examines the legitimacy of the concept of dignity in documents by international political bodies, and looks at the rhetoric of human dignity in specific controversies: embryonic stem cell research, abortion, human-animal chimeras, euthanasia and palliative care, psychotropic drugs, and assisted reproductive technologies.

Malevolent Legalities

Malevolent Legalities
Title Malevolent Legalities PDF eBook
Author Kevin S. Jobe
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 273
Release 2024-10-29
Genre Law
ISBN 1683934032

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Malevolent Legalities draws upon archival research conducted at the Scalia Papers at the Harvard Law School Historical and Special Collections to examine the influence of Justice Antonin Scalia’s judicial philosophy of “textualist-originalism” on the US Supreme Court’s antidiscrimination jurisprudence. The book focuses on six US Supreme Court cases, organized into two parts. The main argument of the book, grounded in archival and legal materials, is that textualist-originalism makes it lawful for discrimination to be performed through the text, and explicitly seeks to prevent progress by enacting a regime of “static law.” In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), Justice Ginsburg remarked that discrimination today behaves like the Hydra, the many-headed serpent in Ancient Greek mythology which regenerates each time its head is severed. The analysis of archival and legal materials is therefore prefaced by the development of a unique methodology for studying discrimination called discriminatology, understood as a framework for analyzing how discrimination persists through time, is performed through the text, and is a product of the manipulation of legal speech. In this way, Malevolent Legalities approaches the study of textualist-originalism as itself a vehicle for discrimination performed mala fide or “in bad faith.”