This introduction to human dignity explores the history of the notion from antiquity to the
nineteenth century, and the way in which dignity is conceptualised in non-Western contexts …

This paper is written from a perspective that is sympathetic to the basic idea of the capability
approach. Our aim is to compare Martha Nussbaum's capability theory of justice with Alan …

This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics. It offers the reader an
overview of key debates in bioethics relevant to various areas including; organ retrieval …

This paper analyses the main challenges (particularly those deriving from the non-identity
problem and epistemic uncertainty concerning the preferences of future persons) to the idea …

Questions of sustainability will be of crucial importance for the twenty-first century. But do we
have to think about questions of responsibilities regarding future people in terms of human …

What are our obligations towards future generations who stand to be harmed by the impact
of today's environmental crises? This book explores ecological sustainability as a human …

An analysis of violations of human dignity seems to offer an inductive pathway to human
dignity, that some find more promising than theory-guided elaborations of a positive account …

Straight accusations are considered a normal case for accusations with special accusation
types referring to other forms of accusations. Three special accusation types wil be …

The development of bioethics has presented us with an ever increasing number of very
different discussions over the last four decades. Bioethicists were initially c-cerned about …

Academic institutions in Europe (eg universities, research funding institutions, academies)
are increasingly committing themselves to 'open science'principles (see eg http …