LEADER 03879nam 22006135 450 001 9910866587203321 005 20240717113745.0 010 $a9789819705191$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9789819705184 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-97-0519-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31502932 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31502932 035 $a(CKB)32569750700041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-97-0519-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932569750700041 100 $a20240621d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDignity, Freedom and Justice /$fedited by Reiko Gotoh 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (276 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Gotoh, Reiko Dignity, Freedom and Justice Singapore : Springer,c2024 9789819705184 327 $aIntroduction -- The Normative Role of the Concept of Dignity in the Public Sphere -- Learning from historical injustice? On the significance of war, violence and degradation for theorizing human rights -- Liberalism and Dignity: The Soul?s Humble Upbringing and Vulnerability -- Human Dignity as a Global Common Good -- Human Dignity in Discourse Ethics -- The Confucian Justification of Equal Human Dignity. 330 $aThis is an open access book. Modern society is characterized by the fact of contingency, uncertainty, and ambiguity. The purpose of this book is to transform this phenomenal fact into a hopeful norm. As a clue, the book examines the concept of dignity and looks forward to a new definition. So far, the concept of dignity has been peripheral to the concerns of liberal social sciences. This book uses the concept of dignity as a source of light to illuminate the fundamental critique of liberal social sciences and philosophy. Can the theory of justice or discourse ethics truly realize the well-defined society it envisions in a fundamentally contingent, uncertain, and ambiguous situation? Can societies be inclusive of minorities relegated to the periphery with their dignity undermined? Can we resist the temptation to construct huge hierarchical stairs, forcing individuals to place themselves on one of its steps, and thus lining up different and diverse entities in a long sequence, and eventually bringing about totalitarianism? This book has a three-level telescopic structure. At the very front, there is a scope of reexaming the political liberalism in the light of dignity. Behind it is a scope of reconstructing a theory of justice in modern society. Further behind it, there is a scope encompassing reflection on the methodology of liberal social sciences and philosophy. We leave it to the reader's imagination as to which scope to read this book through, and what image will emerge from the three scopes taken together. It is our hope that this book helps readers envision as a "realistic utopia" a society in which "no one is left behind," including wounded little birds. 606 $aSocial justice 606 $aNormativity (Ethics) 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aEconomics 606 $aHuman rights 606 $aSocial Justice 606 $aNormative Ethics 606 $aPhilosophy of Economics 606 $aHuman Rights 615 0$aSocial justice. 615 0$aNormativity (Ethics). 615 0$aPhilosophy. 615 0$aEconomics. 615 0$aHuman rights. 615 14$aSocial Justice. 615 24$aNormative Ethics. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Economics. 615 24$aHuman Rights. 676 $a303.372 700 $aGotoh$b Reiko$01771355 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910866587203321 996 $aDignity, Freedom and Justice$94258322 997 $aUNINA