Neither Beast Nor God

The Dignity of the Human Person

Gilbert Meilaender (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2009
Encounter Books,USA (Verlag)
978-1-59403-257-8 (ISBN)

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Appeals to "human dignity" are at the core of many of the most contentious social and political issues of our time. But these appeals suggest different and at times even contradictory ways of understanding the term. Is dignity something we all share equally, and therefore the reason we all ought to be treated as equals? Or is it what distinguishes some greater and more admirable human beings from the rest? What notion of human dignity should inform our private judgments and our public life? In Neither Beast Nor God, Gilbert Meilaender elaborates the philosophical, social, theological, and political implications of the question of dignity, and suggests a path through the thicket. Meilaender, a noted theologian and a prominent voice in America's bioethics debates, traces the ways in which notions of dignity shape societies, families, and individual lives, and incisively cuts through some common confusions that cloud our thinking on key moral and ethical questions. The dignity of humanity and the dignity of the person, he argues, are distinct but deeply connected--and only by grasping them both can we find our way to a meaningful understanding of the human condition.

GILBERT MEILAENDER is the Richard & Phyllis Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. He is a member of the President's Council on Bioethics and a Fellow of the Hastings Center, a bioethics think tank. He is the author of Bioethics: A Primer for Christians. He lives in Valparaiso, Indiana.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.11.2009
Reihe/Serie	Encounter Broadsides
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 239 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	1-59403-257-2 / 1594032572
ISBN-13	978-1-59403-257-8 / 9781594032578
Zustand	Neuware