TY - JOUR
AU - El Bernoussi, Zaynab
AB - Book Review 1 Book Review Dignity: Its History and Meaning By Michael Rosen Harvard University Press. 2012. 200 pages. $21.95 hardback. Reviewer: Zaynab El Bernoussi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill he idea of writing a book about dignity came to Rosen after realizing that he did not know much about the concept in general and within philosophy Tin particular. Naturally, being a philosopher, he reviewed his knowledge about the concept in the discipline of philosophy, questioning once again the underlying fundamentals of the discipline itself. Rosen teaches us that philoso- phy is a holistic discipline, meaning that all the theories and problems relate to one another, whereas experimental science is about establishing solid and repeatable results, something you can hardly do in philosophy. The titles that he chooses for his chapters are rather entertaining: “The Shibboleth of All Empty- Headed Moralists,” “Dwarves with Dignity,” and the ambitious “Formula of Humanity.” The book is an examination of dignity as a concept in history, phi- losophy, and legislation, focused primarily on continental European intellectual thought. In the first part of the book, Rosen attempts to define this slippery concept. Is dignity just about flattering our self-esteem without any genuine 
TI - Dignity: Its History and Meaning By Michael Rosen Harvard University Press. 2012. 200 pages. $21.95 hardback
JO - Social Forces
DO - 10.1093/sf/sou130
DA - 2016-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/dignity-its-history-and-meaning-by-michael-rosen-harvard-university-CWgpf6BteU
SP - e109
EP - e109
VL - 94
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -