Título: Human Dignity

Editora:Harvard University Press

Autor: George Kateb

ISBN: 9780674048379

Disponibilidade: Pronta Entrega

Nº de Páginas: 238

Encadernação: Capa Dura Especial

Ano: 2011

From the book:
"The experience of reading Kateb- one of the most influential and least conventional of thinkers-is quite simply transformative."
-ELAINE SCARRY, Harvard University

"Kateb in Human Dignity, like John Stuart Mill in some of his later writings, asks what object of secular faith may candidly be used as the basis for our duty to respect each other and to serve as stewards
of nature. Humanity itself is the answer he suggests-humanity, regarded not as the collective hero of progress or enlightenment, but as the most interesting creation of nature for better and for worse- the part of nature that holds up a mirror to the rest, even though the rest can never recognize itself in the mirror. I greatly admire this adventurous, often strangely disturbing, and original-minded book."
-DAVID BROMWICH, Yale University

"[T]he last-that is, the first and only-thoroughgoing Emersonian in American political thought."
-CORNEL WEST, Princeton University

Contents:

- The Idea of Human Dignity
- Individual Status and Human Rights
- Human Uniqueness: traits and attributes
- Human Stature and Great Achievements