Description - Neither Beast Nor God by Gilbert Meilaender
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 therefore the reason we all ought to be treated as equals? Or is dignity 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. A noted theologian and a prominent voice in America's bioethics debates, Meilaender traces the ways in which notions of dignity shape societies, families, and individual lives. He incisively cuts through some of the common confusions that cloud our thinking on kehy 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.
Buy Neither Beast Nor God by Gilbert Meilaender from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.
Other Editions - Neither Beast Nor God by Gilbert Meilaender
A Preview for this title is currently not available.
Taste for the Other: the Social and Ethical Thought of C.S. Lewis
Thy Will Be Done – The Ten Commandments and the Christian Life
Checking availability...
