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Dignity
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Christia Mercer, Columbia University
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Published in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts Series
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Dignity
A History
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Edited by Remy Debes
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Series Foreword, by Christia Mercer xi
Acknowledgments xiii
List of Contributors xvii
Introduction 1
1 Dignity in Homer and Classical Greece
Patrice Rankine 19
2 Dignity in Roman and Stoic Thought
Miriam Griffin 47
Reflection Dignity in Confucian and Buddhist Thought
David B. Wong 67
3 In the Image of God: Human Dignity after the Fall
Bonnie Kent 73
4 Islamic Conceptions of Dignity: Historical Trajectories and Paradigms
Mustafa Shah 99
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5 Dignity, Vile Bodies, and Nakedness: Giovanni Pico and
Giannozzo Manetti
Brian Copenhaver 127
Reflection Portraiture, Social Positioning, and Displays of Dignity in Early
Modern London
Edward Town 175
6 Equal Dignity and Rights
Stephen Darwall 181
7 Human Dignity Before Kant: Denis Diderot’s Passionate Person
Remy Debes 203
8 Dignity: Kant’s Revolutionary Conception
Oliver Sensen 237
Reflection A Time for Dignity
Charles W. Mills 263
9 On Bourgeois Dignity: Making the Self- Made Man
Christine DUNN Henderson 269
Reflection Taking Refuge from History in Morality: Marx,
Morality, and Dignity
Somogy Varga 291
10 Universalizing Dignity in the Nineteenth Century
Mika LaVaque- Manty 301
Reflection Why Bioethics Isn’t Ready for Human Dignity
Marcus Düwell 323
11 Sympathy and Dignity in Early Africana Philosophy
Bernard Boxill 333
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Reflection Death and Dignity in American Law
Emma Kaufman 361
Bibliography 369
Index 399
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List of Figures
5.1. Adam with God, Eve, and Others: Sistine Chapel
5.2. Adam Alone without God
5.3. Jesus Baptized: Ravenna
5.4. Donatello’s David
5R.1. A fête at Bermondsey
5R.2. A Village Festival
11R.1. The Man in the Electric Chair at Sing Sing, ca. 1900
11R.2. The lethal injection room in San Quentin State Prison,
completed in 2010
