In response to the vagueness of dignity and its limited application in social welfare, this
article attempts to explore the content of dignity and discuss its implications for welfare …

The ethics of care addresses aspects of the human condition that other moral theories
overlook—our vulnerability to injury, inevitable dependencies, and ubiquitous needs. In the …

Attention to dignity is thriving in health. However, much of this recent discourse ignores the
broader scholarship pertaining to dignity. The purpose of this review is to synthesize a wide …

The notion of human dignity has not fared well in contemporary moral philosophy. It seems
to have suffered the fate of notions such as virtue and honor, by simply fading into the …

Human dignity is an idea of central importance today. It plays a key role in the international
human rights movement, and it figures prominently in many documents that ground political …

This is the first of a planned annual series of volumes publishing the principal studies from
the quarterly Philosophy Forum. It is the fulfillment, in part, of a hope first expressed by …

After 1945, we were confronted with the need for a new conception of human dignity, since
totalitarian mass destruction had proven the fundamental violability and fragility of dignity …

The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct
statement of its core theoretical commitment. This study argues for a simple care ethical …

Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this
concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding …

Although the concept of dignity is commonly invoked in clinical care, there is not widespread
agreement—in either the academic literature or in everyday clinical conversations—about …