Book Cover: Human Dignity & Human Rights
Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it features prominently in international human rights documents. But what is human dignity, why is it important, and what is its relationship to human rights? A new book by Philosophy Professor Pablo Gilabert offers a sophisticated and comprehensive defence of the view that human dignity is the moral heart of human rights.
Published by Oxford University Press in January 2019, "Human Dignity & Human Rights" is the first book-length philosophical account of the significance of human dignity as a central idea for human rights. The work demonstrates how to combine an ethically ambitious conception of the content of human rights norms and a realistic view of how feasibility and power operate in the political process leading to their fulfillment.
Prof. Pablo Gilabert is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University. He will be speaking on "The Dignitarian Approach" at the Concordia Research Symposium in Philosophy this Friday, 1 February 2019.