Most discussions of important moral and political issues, along with our everyday reflections on how others should be treated, occur against a background assumption of human dignity—for example, the idea that human beings have special standing shared by no other creatures on earth. In countless contexts—talking about what we must provide to all persons (health care?), what (...)
June 17, 2011
Books
A Special Species
Human DignityGeorge KatebBelknap/Harvard University Press, $ 22.95, 244 pp.
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