{"title":"Common Humanity","authors":"L. Theunissen","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832645.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832645.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"The author confronts the unavoidable topic of “speciesism,” and the questions about grounding, and about the scope of an account of the value of humanity, to which it gives rise. The author rejects the view that there is something distinctive about all and only human beings which justifies our special moral status. Instead, proposing to account for the value that is typical of human beings, she argues that we are one among other bearers of value that give rise to reasons to be treated in certain ways and not others. The author defends a value-based approach to practical reason, and by working through various distinctions in goodness, she outlines the components of a theory of the value of humanity.","PeriodicalId":113678,"journal":{"name":"The Value of Humanity","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133137017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"L. Theunissen","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832645.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832645.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"At the end of his book-length investigation into treatments of human dignity in the decades surrounding the second world war, a significant period for these discussions, Mark Greif gives voice to a conflicted feeling:\u0000 I want to tell my contemporaries: Stop! Anytime your inquiries lead you to say, “At this moment we must ask and decide ...","PeriodicalId":113678,"journal":{"name":"The Value of Humanity","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133884033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}