Human Dignity
Suffering with dignity
Margaret Somerville | 22 January 2010
Finding meaning in dying.
The downside of risk reduction
Matthew Hanley | 22 January 2010
Risk reduction does more harm than good.
The puzzle of human dignity
Margaret Somerville | 26 November 2009
Both sides of the euthanasia debate claim to be advancing the cause of human dignity. Whom should we believe?
Death panel dudgeon
Michael Cook | 26 October 2009
A very public disagreement between two prominent American bioethicists shows that they have only themselves to blame for attacks on their profession.
Chimps R’nt Us
Richard Umbers | 06 October 2009
If the chimpanzee genome is 98.6% human, does that mean that chimps deserve 98.6% of human rights?
The guru of philanthropy
Michael Cook | 04 September 2009
Peter Singer's latest cause is lifting billions out of poverty
A world of dignity
Sergio Vieira de Mello | 24 August 2009
The late Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN special representative in Iraq, on human dignity.
Justifying one’s existence
Barbara Kay | 28 July 2009
Choosing to live out one’s natural life will soon be as unpopular as refusing an abortion.
Films about human dignity
Michael Cook | 05 July 2009
Here's a selection of some great films about human dignity. Help us to add more -- comments, please!
Our public intellectual A-list
Michael Cook | 06 June 2009
Our nominations for the world's top public intellectuals who support human dignity. Comments please!
An oath to be ethical
Alejo José G. Sison | 05 June 2009
Some business graduates are leaving Harvard clutching a pledge card.
What can economists tell us about happiness?
Alejo José G. Sison | 27 May 2009
Given the discoveries of modern "Happiness Studies", is there any role left for virtue? Does ethics continue to have a say on happiness, or should it give up the turf to economics and psychology?
The dignity of the body
Brigitte Pellerin | 26 May 2009
Exercising the body brings dignity, not shame. Saudi clerics have it all wrong.
100 Days: Human dignity still above his pay grade
Carolyn Moynihan | 02 May 2009
Abortion, conscientious objection, stem cell research and torture were tests of the the new president’s commitment to human dignity. He failed in three.
Human rights doublespeak at the UN
Colleen Carroll Campbell | 05 April 2009
A group of Islamic countries has used "tolerance", "diversity" and "harmony" in an effort to ban criticism of Islam.
A life affirmed
Mary Hinton | 04 February 2009
Barack Obama’s election has awakened hopes in some black Americans that their existence will at last be officially recognized.
A life rich in significance
Francis Phillips | 27 January 2009
A father’s struggle to understand the point of his daughter’s short, totally dependent life.
The human dignity crisis in Gaza
Mary Robinson | 15 January 2009
Only the extremists are winning as a result of Israel's blitz on Hamas.
If doctors who won’t kill are ‘wicked,’ the world is sick
Licia Corbella | 14 January 2009
Baroness Warnock's wonky views, not killing patients is "wicked". What kind of society honours such a woman.
Dignified arguments
Michael Cook | 27 June 2008
Has the world's leading science journal abandoned the ideal of human dignity?
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