A Review of Human Dignity
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Before introducing the theory of workplace dignity in depth, this chapter reviews the broader landscape of human dignity to establish a foundation for the new theory. A theory of workplace dignity is in important ways different from human dignity, but in equally important ways builds upon the rich tradition of writers and writings about human dignity and how it has been defined in terms of what it is to be a human being, and how it differs from non-human beings such as animals. It is needed to explicitly describe what dignity means, how it has been developed philosophically in the past, and how it is still relevant for contemporary society (McCrudden 2013). Discussing dignity is impossible without taking into account the work of philosopher Immanuel Kant, and it is his work that forms the primary inspiration for the use of dignity in the newly postulated theory. However, as recent research has shown (Lucas 2015), dignity not only manifests at work in a Kantian sense; there is also evidence for the existence of dignity in line with Aristotelian virtue ethics, where people feel that they have earned their dignity, or perceive others to be behaving in a dignified way (which 2
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