Dignity appears to be an important concept in ethics. The word is used frequently in international documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations and the European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. As Ronald Dworkin has noted, the very idea of human rights depends upon ‘the vague but powerful idea of human dignity’.
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Sulmasy, D.P. (2007). Human Dignity and Human Worth. In: Malpas, J., Lickiss, N. (eds) Perspectives on Human Dignity: A Conversation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6281-0_2
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