Rethinking the Value of Humanity

by Buss, Sarah; Theunissen, Nandi

• ISBN13: 9780197539361
• ISBN10: 019753936X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780197539385
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-01-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Sarah Buss is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. She is the author of articles on autonomy, moral responsibility, practical rationality, respect for persons, and various issues in ethics, and co-editor of The Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt (2001).

Nandi Theunissen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on foundational topics in ethics, with a focus on the nature of value, and is the author of The Value of Humanity (OUP, 2020), as well as essays on Kant's moral philosophy, regress arguments, moral realism, and the nature of well-being.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors

Introduction
Sarah Buss

1. Decomposing Humanity
Jon Garthoff

2. Do the Ancients See Value in Humanity?
Richard Bett

3. Spinoza's Anti-Humanism: Human Value and Dignity
Yitzhak Melamed

4. Slavery, Freedom, and Human Value in Early Modern Philosophy
Julia Jorati

5. Valuing Humanity in 'Common Life': Grotius and Pufendorf on Equal 'Sociable' Dignity
Stephen Darwall

6. The Dignity of Humanity
Ralf M. Bader

7. Great Beyond All Comparison
Kenneth Walden

8. Fichte on the Value of Rational Agency
Michelle Kosch

9. Explaining the Value of Human Beings
L. Nandi Theunissen

10. Are We of Equal Moral Worth?
Andrea Sangiovanni

11. The Normative Significance of Humanity
Peter Railton

12. Finding the Humean Value in Humean Humanity
Don Garrett

13. Other People
Kieran Setiya

14. Learning from Love: Reasoning, Respect, and the Value of a Person
Kyla Ebels-Duggan

15. The Invention of Value and the Value of Humanity
Elijah Millgram

16. The Human Foundations of our Political Ideals: An Essay on Gandhi's Political Radicalism
Akeel Bilgrami

Index