Beyond “Christian Human Rights”: Simone Weil on Dignity and the Impersonal
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Human dignity, bioethics, and human rights.
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عنوان ژورنال: Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2365-3140,2364-2807
DOI: 10.30965/23642807-00601007