TRS 882C Ethics and Politics of Dignity
This course enquires into the rise to global prominence of discourses about human dignity since the mid-twentieth century in, for example, UN documents, national constitutions, Catholic teaching, and the activities of the President's Council on Bioethics in the U.S. Topics include the history of conceptions of dignity, the semantic structure of dignity language, philosophical and religious accounts of human dignity, applications of dignity in constitutional jurisprudence and human rights law, and invocations of dignity in political debates. Selected cases will be examined.