Features of Human Dignity in the Context of the Modern Philosophy of Law
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v15i2.358Keywords:
dignity, fundamental human rights and freedoms, subjective rights, democratic state, government, obligation, the legal status of the individualAbstract
The article explores the notion and peculiarities of the concept of “human dignity” in the modern democratic, legal state. In the given research the author implements holistic, systematical (methodical) analysis of content and distinguishing features of the dignity as the structural element of the concept “legal status of the individual”.
This study is also focusing on various approaches of well-known jurists on the essence, content and legislative consolidation of the dignity of the individual.
The author comes to a conclusion, that the dignity of a person, who is a subject of law, is ensured by the complex of subjective rights and freedoms assigned to him or her, which constitute the legal status of a person. In other words, the person is both a subject of law and of “dignity”. Therefore, the dignity of the person becomes, from a legal point of view, a complex interdisciplinary legal institute. Consequently, the whole mission of this legal institute is to fulfil the virtues of man in the relations of reality. Thus, the law becomes an effective mean of regulating the whole complex of public relations that expresses human dignity.
Downloads
References
Barac, A. (2015). Human Dignity, The Constitutional Value and the Constitutional Right. Cambridge: CUP.
Birnbacher, D. (2004). Menschenwürde – abwägbar oder unabwägbar? In M. Kettner (Ed.), Biomedizin und Menschenwürde (pp 249-271). Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp.
Dworkin, R. (1993 ). Life’s Dominion: An Argument about Abortion and Euthanasia. UK: Hammersmith: Harper Collins.
Enders, C. (2010, January-June). The Right to Have Rights: The Concept of Human Dignity in German Basic Law. Revista de Estudos Constitucionais, Hermenkutica e Teoria do Direito (RECHTD), 2(1), 1-8.
Fichte, J. (2000). Fundamentals of Natural Law According to the Principles of the Wis-senschaftslebre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gelernter, D. (2008). The Irreducibly Religious Character of Human Dignity. In A. Shulman (Ed.), Human Dignity and Bioethics Essays Commissioned by the President’s Council on Bioethics (pp. 387-405). Washington DC.
Gewirth, A. (1992). Human Dignity as the Basis of Rights. In M. Meyer and W. A. Parent (Eds.), The Constitution of Rights. Human Dignity and American Values (pp. 10-28). Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Habermas, J. (2001). Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp.
Harutyunyan G., & Vagharshyan A. (2010). Hayastani Hanrapetut’yan Sahmanadrut’yan meknabanut’yunner (Comments on the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, in Armenian). Yerevan: Iravunq.
Hegel, G. (1896). Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. London: G.Bell.
Kantipenko, E. (2015). Razvitie ponyatiya “dostoinstvo cheloveka” kak nravstvenno-pravovoi kategorii kontseptsii prav cheloveka (Development of the Concept of “Human Dignity” as a Doral Law Category of Human Rights Concept, in Russian). Proceedings of the Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of RF, 2, 14-21.
Morriss, I. (2004). Equality and the Origins of Greek Democracy. In E. Robinson (Ed), Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources (pp. 47-50). Oxford: Blackwell.
O’Mahony, C. (2012). There is No Such Thing as a Right to Dignity. International Journal of Constitutional Law, 10(2), 551-574.
Poghosyan, V., & Sargsyan, N. (2015). Hayastani Hanrapetut’yan 2015t’ khmbagrut’yan Sahmanadrut’yuny (Constitution of the Republic of Armenia in the version of 2015, in Armenian). Yerevan: Tigran Mec.
Schiller, F. (2010). Letters Upon the aesthetic Education of Man. Whitefish. Montana: Kessinger Publishing, LLC.
Shultziner, D., & Rabinovich, I. (2012). Human Dignity, Self-Worth and Humiliation: A Comparative Legal-Psychological Approach. Psychology Public Policy and Law, 18(1), 105-143.
Stepanians, M. (2003). Gleiche Würde, gleiche Rechte. In Menschenwürde – Annäherung an einen Begriff. Wien.: Öbv & Hpt.
Surikov, I. (2018). Terminy dostoinstva v drevnegrecheskom i latinskom yazykakh: Rozhdeniye kategorii v dvukh pervykh yevropeyskikh tsivilizatsiyakh (The Terms for Dignity in Ancient Greek and Latin: The Birth of a Category in the First Two European Civilizations, in Russian). New Literary Review, 3(151), Retrieved from: https://www.-nlobooks.ru/magazines/novoe_literaturnoe_obozrenie/151/article/19748/.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2020 WISDOM
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC). CC BY-NC allows users to copy and distribute the article, provided this is not done for commercial purposes. The users may adapt – remix, transform, and build upon the material giving appropriate credit, and providing a link to the license. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
