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Human Dignity : A Way of Living.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Chicester : Polity Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (208 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780745689050
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 179.7
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dignity as a Way of Living -- 1: Dignity as Autonomy -- Being a Subject -- Being an End in Itself -- Slaughterhouses -- What If It is Voluntary? -- Humiliation as Demonstrated Powerlessness -- Escaping to an Inner Fortress -- Having Rights -- Being Patronized -- Caring Paternalism -- Respect for Alterity and Conviction -- Dependence: Asking and Begging -- Begging for Feelings -- Inner Autonomy: Thought -- Inner Autonomy: Wanting and Deciding -- Inner Autonomy: Emotions -- Inner Autonomy: Self-Image and Censorship -- Humiliation Through Serfdom -- Autonomy Through Self-Knowledge -- Needing Therapy -- Dignity Through Work -- Money -- 2: Dignity as Encounter -- When Subjects Encounter Each Other -- Commitment and Distancing -- Recognition -- Equal Rights -- Putting Someone on Display -- Sex Objects -- Human Commodity -- Neglect -- Talk To Me! -- Laughing at Someone -- Denying Explanation -- Manipulation -- Deception -- Seduction -- Overpowering -- Working With a Therapist -- No Pity, Thank You! -- Encounters Between Autonomous Individuals -- Leaving an Open Future to the Other -- Dignified Partings -- 3: Dignity as Respect for Intimacy -- The Dual Need for Intimacy -- Feeling the Other's Gaze -- What is a Defect? -- The Logic of Shame -- Shame as Humiliation -- Dignity as Conquered Shame -- The Intimate Space -- The Innermost Zone -- Dignified Disclosures -- Undignified Disclosures -- Shared Intimacy -- Betrayed Intimacy as Lost Dignity -- A Challenge: Intimacy as a Lack of Courage -- 4: Dignity as Truthfulness -- Lying to Others -- Lying to Oneself -- Honesty and Its Limits -- Calling Things by Their Proper Name -- Saving One's Face -- Bullshit -- 5: Dignity as Self-Respect -- Dignity Through Limits -- Fluid Self-Images -- Destroying Self-Respect.
Sacrificing Self-Respect -- Breaking Self-Respect -- Responsibility for Oneself -- 6: Dignity as Moral Integrity -- Moral Autonomy -- Moral Dignity -- Dignity in Guilt and Forgiveness -- Punishment: Development Instead of Destruction -- Absolute Moral Boundaries? -- 7: Dignity as a Sense of What Matters -- Meaning of Life -- One's Own Voice -- Equanimity as a Sense of Proportion -- The View from the End -- 8: Dignity as the Acceptance of Finitude -- When Others Lose Themselves -- Escape -- Losing Oneself: Resistance -- Losing Oneself: Accepting the Journey into Darkness -- Dying -- Letting Someone Die -- Ending One's Life -- Responsibility Towards the Dead -- References and Further Reading -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Credits -- End User License Agreement.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dignity as a Way of Living -- 1: Dignity as Autonomy -- Being a Subject -- Being an End in Itself -- Slaughterhouses -- What If It is Voluntary? -- Humiliation as Demonstrated Powerlessness -- Escaping to an Inner Fortress -- Having Rights -- Being Patronized -- Caring Paternalism -- Respect for Alterity and Conviction -- Dependence: Asking and Begging -- Begging for Feelings -- Inner Autonomy: Thought -- Inner Autonomy: Wanting and Deciding -- Inner Autonomy: Emotions -- Inner Autonomy: Self-Image and Censorship -- Humiliation Through Serfdom -- Autonomy Through Self-Knowledge -- Needing Therapy -- Dignity Through Work -- Money -- 2: Dignity as Encounter -- When Subjects Encounter Each Other -- Commitment and Distancing -- Recognition -- Equal Rights -- Putting Someone on Display -- Sex Objects -- Human Commodity -- Neglect -- Talk To Me! -- Laughing at Someone -- Denying Explanation -- Manipulation -- Deception -- Seduction -- Overpowering -- Working With a Therapist -- No Pity, Thank You! -- Encounters Between Autonomous Individuals -- Leaving an Open Future to the Other -- Dignified Partings -- 3: Dignity as Respect for Intimacy -- The Dual Need for Intimacy -- Feeling the Other's Gaze -- What is a Defect? -- The Logic of Shame -- Shame as Humiliation -- Dignity as Conquered Shame -- The Intimate Space -- The Innermost Zone -- Dignified Disclosures -- Undignified Disclosures -- Shared Intimacy -- Betrayed Intimacy as Lost Dignity -- A Challenge: Intimacy as a Lack of Courage -- 4: Dignity as Truthfulness -- Lying to Others -- Lying to Oneself -- Honesty and Its Limits -- Calling Things by Their Proper Name -- Saving One's Face -- Bullshit -- 5: Dignity as Self-Respect -- Dignity Through Limits -- Fluid Self-Images -- Destroying Self-Respect.

Sacrificing Self-Respect -- Breaking Self-Respect -- Responsibility for Oneself -- 6: Dignity as Moral Integrity -- Moral Autonomy -- Moral Dignity -- Dignity in Guilt and Forgiveness -- Punishment: Development Instead of Destruction -- Absolute Moral Boundaries? -- 7: Dignity as a Sense of What Matters -- Meaning of Life -- One's Own Voice -- Equanimity as a Sense of Proportion -- The View from the End -- 8: Dignity as the Acceptance of Finitude -- When Others Lose Themselves -- Escape -- Losing Oneself: Resistance -- Losing Oneself: Accepting the Journey into Darkness -- Dying -- Letting Someone Die -- Ending One's Life -- Responsibility Towards the Dead -- References and Further Reading -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Credits -- End User License Agreement.

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