PREFACE
xiii equivalent to proof: J. S. Mill, Utilitarianism, in On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 135.
1. “THE SHIBBOLETH OF ALL EMPTY-HEADED MORALISTS”
1 that expression, dignity of man: A. Schopenhauer, On the Basis of Morality (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1965), p. 100.
2 the common responsibility of all people: letter of 28 August 2006, downloaded from http://english.farsnews.net/.
3 path of dignity: CBS News, 10 October 2006.
3 consists of a unique freedom: R. Niebuhr, Faith and History (New York: Scribner’s, 1949), p. 124.
3 The dignity of each and every human being: J. Moltmann, “Christianity and the Revaluation of the Values of Modernity and of the Western World,” in A Passion for God’s Reign (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdman’s, 1998), p. 34.
3 David Brooks: New York Times, 9 July 2009.
4 popular press: “Sir Bobby Robson,” The Times (London), 31 July 2009.
4 Colonia Dignidad: Bruce Falconer, “The Torture Colony,” American Scholar, Autumn 2008.
5 Dignity is a useless concept: R. Macklin, “Dignity Is a Useless Concept,” British Medical Journal (20 December 2003), pp. 1419–1420.
5 with unnecessary obscurity: J. Griffin, “A Note on Measuring Well-Being,” in Summary Measures of Population Health, ed. C. J. L. Murray, p. 131.
5 potential maker of claims: J. Feinberg, “The Nature and Value of Rights,” reprinted in his Rights, Justice and the Bounds of Liberty (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), p. 151.
6 a virtue: see A. Kolnai, “Dignity,” reprinted in Dignity, Character and Self-Respect, ed. R. Dillon (New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 53–75.
7 intrinsically disordered: Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2357.
7 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Catholics: downloaded from DignityUSA.org.
7 her trampled dignity: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11480968.
8 expanding circle narrative: see, for example, J. Griffin, On Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), chap. 1; and J. Waldron, Dignity, Rank and Rights, The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Berkeley, 2009 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
11 cum dignitate otium: “Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius.” The phrase also appears in De Oratore.
12 unworthy of the dignity of the human race: De Officiis, I, 30.
13 means of your salvation: Translated in J. H. Robinson, Readings in European History (Boston: Ginn, 1905), 72–73
14 acknowledgment of unworthiness: J. Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, vol. 2: The Sea Stories (New York: Cosimo, 2007), p. 159.
15 by indignities: Essays, Civil and Moral (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Classics, 1909–1914).
16 not in necessity: The doctrine & discipline of divorce (London: [s.n.], 1644), p. 2.
16 goodness on account of itself: Scriptum super libros Sententiarium, bk. III, distinction 35, question 1, article 4, solution 1c.
18 all our dignity consists in thought: Pensées, 200 (Penguin: Harmondsworth, 1966).
18 Ig Nobel Prize: http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2008.
20 I can turn all things: Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschens (1520), 15th thesis.
32 tranquility in suffering: Über Anmut und Würde (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1971), p. 121.
33 fortitude with which the great man endures it: in German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism, ed. H. B. Nisbet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 42.
35 sublime disposition: Über Anmut und Würde, p. 113.
35 morally great: Ibid., p. 119.
35 moral freedom of the human being: Ibid., p. 121.
39 conformity to his image: Moral Sketches of Prevailing Opinions and Manners, Foreign and Domestic, with Reflections on Prayer (1820), in The Works of Hannah More, vol. 4 (London: T. Cadell, 1830), pp. 370–371.
39 A black coming in at this moment: John Bernard, Retrospections of America, 1797–1811 (1880), pp. 90–91.
41 history in morality: Deutsch-Brüsseler-Zeitung, no. 92 (18 November 1847).
42 serious philosophies and religions: F. Nietzsche, “The Greek State,” in Early Greek Philosophy and Other Writings, trans. M. A. Mügge (New York: Russell and Russell, 1964), p. 3.
43 dignity of labor: Ibid., pp. 4–5.
43 preserve his individual existence: Ibid., p. 5.
44 crushed by the wheels of the chariot: Ibid., pp. 7–8.
46 excuse his existence: the prototype of the state: Ibid., pp. 16–17.
47 never either well-trained or accomplished: A. Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 2, trans. Henry Reeve (New York: Colonial Press, 1899), p. 227.
57 potential maker of claims: Feinberg, “Nature and Value of Rights,” p. 151.
2. THE LEGISLATION OF DIGNITY
64 absence of particular local circumstances: Manuel Wackenheim v. France, Communication No. 854/1999, U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/75/D/854/1999 (2002), in United Nations Human Rights Committee, Selected Decisions under the Optional Protocol, Seventy-Fifth to Eighty-Fourth Sessions (July 2002–March 2005) (New York: United Nations Publications, 2007), p. 111.
65 must require the proper respect: http://www.conseil-etat.fr/cde/fr/presentation-des-grands-arrets/27-octobre-1995-commune-de-morsang-sur-orge.html.
67 compatible with the objectives of the Covenant: Manuel Wackenheim v. France, p. 114.
69 little people are trying to gain: Jennifer Brandlon, “Little People,” Associated Press, Baltimore, 1 July 1989.
73 with a bump, is funny: “Funny but not vulgar,” in The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 3 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970), p. 325.
78 justice in the world: Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 23 May 1949, Article 1.
81 replaceable magnitude: Maunz-Dürig, 1958, Art. 1, Abs. 1—see also BVerfGE 45, 187, 227f.
88 by rational means: C. Korsgaard, Creating the Kingdom of Ends (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 124.
89 could not consent: O. O’Neill, Constructions of Reason (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 138.
93 by rational means: Korsgaard, Creating the Kingdom of Ends, p. 124.
103 an average of ten European countries: “European Values,” TNS-Sofres, May 2005, http://www.thebrusselsconnection.be/tbc/upload/attachments/European%20Values%20Overall%20EN.pdf.
118 as a mere means: Korsgaard, Creating the Kingdom of Ends, p. 139.
120 adds nothing: “The Stupidity of Dignity,” New Republic, 28 May 2008.
122 to dispose of: Catechism of the Catholic Church (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1993), 2280.
122 by rational means: Korsgaard, Creating the Kingdom of Ends, p. 124.
124 harm to others: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, chap. 1.
3. DUTY TO HUMANITY
130 and its quality: The Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 194.
137 extreme instance: Principia Ethica (1903) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), §50.
139 duties without rights: O’Neill, Constructions of Reason (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 179.
145 source of value: C. Korsgaard, Creating the Kingdom of Ends (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 124.
147 ending that misery: Ibid., p. 158.
147 everyday lives: Ibid., pp. 100–101.
151 to pursue it: Ibid., p. 126.