Human Dignity
Just one hitch with all those eulogiesMichael Cook | 19 December 2011 |tags: human dignity, obituaryWho was the greater public intellectual, Christopher Hitchens or Vaclav Havel?
Statistically significant angelsZac Alstin | 11 November 2011 |tags: history, human dignity, warfareDid the 20th Century really usher in a decline in violence, even with two World Wars?Paradoxes of a wired worldFrancisco J. Pérez-Latre | 23 September 2011 |tags: communication, human dignity, technologyWill the internet make our lives easier? No so fast…
Birthday blueMichael Cook | 05 July 2011 |tags: assisted suicide, Australia, euthanasia, human dignity, utilitarianismAre supporters of legalised euthanasia willing to listen to reason? Maybe not.
When animals count more than peopleMichael Cook | 11 June 2011 |tags: animal rights, Australia, human dignityTreat animals with kindness, by all means. But don't forget about people.
Warriors in pinkPedro Dutour | 11 March 2011 |tags: human dignity, Mexico, migrationFrom south of the border come stories of selfless courage and compassion.Has the age of computer overlords begun?Robert Moniot | 23 February 2011 |tags: computing, human dignityAn IBM computer has thrashed two human champions in the quiz show Jeopardy! Is it game over for humanity?
Names and the value of a human personUchenna Uzo | 25 January 2011 |tags: Africa, children, human dignity, namesWestern nations may have much to learn from naming traditions in AfricaHeroine of human dignity: Mildred Fay JeffersonRebekah Hebbert | 13 December 2010 |tags: abortion, heroes, human dignity, medicineThe first black woman to graduate from Harvard medical school used her position to defend the humanity of the unborn.Obama’s empathy problemZac Alstin | 18 November 2010 |tags: empathy, human dignity, ObamaHow could the US President have failed to exhibit the quality at the heart of his moral code?Chevalier in the fight for human dignityMichael Cook | 02 November 2010 |tags: euthanasia, France, human dignityFrance has just given its highest dignity to a courageous woman who battled locked-in syndrome and quadriplegia to fight for the disabled.
What one man can doLiu Xiaobo | 12 October 2010 |tags: China, human dignity, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize"Our high regard for dignity is the natural source of our sense of justice," says the latest Nobel Peace Prize laureate.Being human is no big dealTheron Bowers | 11 August 2010 |tags: animal rights, forum, human dignity, Peter SingerAre human beings just a smarter species of animal or is there something transcendentally different about them?The dark side of American exceptionalismMichael Cook | 07 July 2010 |tags: human dignity, prisonsWhy is 1 in 18 men in the world’s richest nation on probation, on parole or in jail?Plastinated peopleMichael Cook | 07 April 2010 |tags: human dignityIs it offensive to human dignity to display naked corpses posed like shop-window mannequins? |