Concept Of Dignity Research Articles

Human dignity of patients in nursing: A concept analysis.

To understand the concept of dignity in care and use it in practice, nurses need a clear understanding of the dignity of patients, which can help them improve quality of care and provide services of a higher standard. This study aims to clarify the concept of human dignity of patients in nursing. Walker and Avant's method (2011) was used for this concept analysis. Published literature from 2010 to 2020 was identified using national and international databases. The full text of the included articles was reviewed. The main dimensions and attributes include valuing the patient, respecting patients' privacy, autonomy, and confidentiality, having a positive mental image, having a sense of altruism, respecting human equality, observing patients' beliefs and rights, adequately educating patients, and paying attention to secondary caregivers. Nurses should consider the subjective and objective aspects of dignity in their daily care activities by cultivating a deeper understanding of the concept of dignity and its attributes. In this regard, nursing tutors, managers, and policymakers in healthcare should emphasise human dignity in nursing.

Islamic Concept of Dignity of Labour and Its Effect on The Nascent Entpreneurship Model

Purpose: Islam is a vital force that influences economic development and business performance, and it does not impede business development, entrepreneurship, and skill acquisition. Its economic system view of entrepreneurship is an integral part of wealth creation for Muslims. The objective of this paper is to see how the concept of Islamic dignity of labor could assist Muslim participants in the area of entrepreneurship.Methodology:The methodology of this research is theoretical; hence, it applied a qualitative approach.Findings: The data collection was conducted through the personal views of experts in Islamic worldview, Islamic entrepreneurship, ethics, and understanding of al-Qur'an, Sunnah, and other Islamic sources. Undoubtedly, if the Islamic concept of dignity of labor is adhered to, it would assist the Muslims to identify the lawful and the unlawful aspects of participation in entrepreneurship. Findings showed the effect of the Islamic ethical model on the Islamic entrepreneurship design.Implication:It is therefore recommended that whatever role the Muslims want to play in entrepreneurship, the ethics inherent in the Islamic concept of dignity of labor should be applied.

Two Concepts of Dignity: On the Decay of Agency in Law


 
 
 This paper examines the radical shift we can observe in the modern legal understanding of dignity. That one should be respected for one’s own sake is a cornerstone of our modern societies, enshrined in our laws and constitutions. The idea of dignity, however, is subject to fundamentally different interpretations. More precisely, we examine two such theories of dignity – namely, the “agency theory of dignity,” associated with Immanuel Kant and based on people’s capacity for free will, and the “well-being theory of dignity,” recently championed by Alan Gewirth and regarding dignity a kind of intrinsic worth that belongs equally to all human beings as such. Kantian dignity means that we should endorse strong negative duties, but not positive duties, such as duties of welfare. From Gewirth’s one we can derive rights not only of negative freedom, but also duties of well-being toward others.
 The modern shift from the former to the latter, we argue, is problematic, first, inasmuch as it is an expression of the decay of agency in our legal systems, and, second, because the well-being theory of dignity is often self-defeating, hurting the well-being of the worst-off and lowering total welfare in society. This paper accordingly maintains that we should go back to the agency theory of dignity.
 Using an antinomian reading of Kant’s theory, we maintain that rational people are to be their own lawmaker and act from laws they themselves made, that the scope of legislative activity should be limited as a matter of dignity, and the role of dignity should be reduced in our laws. The main conclusion is that dignity cannot be a principle of law, as it is rather a principle of responsibility.
 
 

Dignity Deployed: An Examination of Refugee Rights through Domestic Dignity Jurisprudence

Abstract The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (Refugee Convention) provides protection for people with a well-founded fear of persecution who find themselves outside their country of nationality. The treaty not only sets out a legal status for those recognized as refugees by the country of asylum, but also certain civil, political, social, and economic rights throughout the refugee status determination process. Yet, despite being faced with the highest numbers of displaced people since the Second World War, States parties to the Refugee Convention routinely fail to meet the standards set out by the Convention. This article explores how domestic courts enforce treaty compliance not as a matter of international law, but rather by using the concept of constitutional dignity. The discussion examines how constitutional courts around the world have used dignity as both a substantive right and a functional standard in order to fulfil the promises of the Refugee Convention. The article concludes with an argument for dignity as a powerful tool to fill gaps in refugee protection globally.

Psychiatric nurses' perception of dignity in patients who attempted suicide.

Maintaining the dignity of patients who attempted suicide is one of the caregivers' main ethical duties. Yet, in many cases, these patients are not treated with dignity. The concept of dignity is abstract, and there is no research on the dignity of suicidal patients. So, the present study is done to investigate psychiatric nurses' perception of dignity in patients who attempted suicide. The present study explores the concept of dignity in patients who attempted suicide from the perspective of psychiatric nurses. The present study is a qualitative, descriptive work of research. A total of 20 psychiatric nurses from 2 hospitals affiliated with a university of medical sciences in the southeast of Iran were selected via purposeful sampling. The Research Ethics Committee of the Hamadan University of Medical Sciences approved the study's protocol, and ethical principles were followed in general. From the findings of the study, three main themes, namely " respect for personal; identity," "management of psychological tension," and "compassion-focused therapy," with 12 sub-themes were extracted. In the perspective of caregivers, patients who attempted suicide need to be cared for in supportive environments with compassionate and respectful behaviors to control their psychological tensions. These conditions would maintain such patients' dignity and result in appropriate behavioral outcomes. Policy-makers and administrators can use the present study's findings to create an appropriate clinical environment in which the dignity of patients who attempted suicide is properly maintained.

Human Trafficking and Islamic Law

This article investigates the Islamic legal framework in relation to human trafficking, which is based on the sources of the Islamic Sharia and the approaches taken by the Islamic Sharia towards human trafficking. It defines the term of human trafficking in the Arabic language and under Islamic laws and focuses on the various practices and forms of human trafficking which are prohibited under both the Islamic Sharia and international human rights law. It also critically analyses the penalties for the crimes of human trafficking under the Islamic Sharia. The chapter then discusses the concept of human dignity under the Islamic Sharia and its influence on the definition of human trafficking from an Islamic perspective. The article demonstrates that Islam has not only supported a set of rights that preserve human dignity, but it has also instituted a series of punishments in civil society to prevent the abuse of these rights. Although there is no explicit text in the major sources of Islamic law prohibiting human trafficking, the chapter concludes that many customs and actions that contribute to trafficking are clearly prohibited. In addition, to strengthen the sense of human dignity, all Islamic principles have sought to grant rights to all, including the vulnerable and the weak. This implies that Islamic Sharia is in an appropriate position to complement and support the international framework for combating human trafficking. Keyword s: Density: Human dignity; Human Trafficking; International Law; Islamic Sharia; Forced Marriage; Mut’ah Marriage DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/131-02 Publication date: April 30 th 2023

Dignity Disputed

AbstractObergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry, marked the first time in the Court’s history that justices explicitly disagreed over the meaning and requirements of human dignity. In his dissenting opinion Clarence Thomas sought to reclaim rather than simply reject the language of dignity, advancing a conception of dignity that differed sharply from the conception embraced by the majority. Using this disagreement as a point of departure, this article demonstrates how dignity has served as an extra-textual value that underpins divergent visions of American constitutionalism that, in turn, inform interpretations of the Constitution’s text and history.

Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination, by Vincent W. Lloyd

Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination, by Vincent W. Lloyd

Kant’s Concept of Dignity. Ed. by Yasushi Kato and Gerhard Schönrich. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 330 pages. ISBN 9783110661200. [KSEH 209

Article Kant’s Concept of Dignity. Ed. by Yasushi Kato and Gerhard Schönrich. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 330 pages. ISBN 9783110661200. [KSEH 209] was published on March 31, 2023 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 114, issue 1).

Mitigating the impacts of racism on Indigenous wellbeing through human rights, legislative and health policy reform.

Mitigating the impacts of racism on Indigenous wellbeing through human rights, legislative and health policy reform.

A survey inquiry into behavioral foundations of hate speech regulations: evidence from Japan

AbstractThis paper highlights the concept of dignity as the cornerstone that justifies hate speech regulations in democratic societies. In political theory and constitutional law, the primacy of dignity as the moral and legislative justification for regulating hate speech has already been addressed by dignitarianism, especially in the course of debate with free speech advocates. We aim to augment this important claim in the normative literature with empirical data. Specifically, based on our survey conducted in Japan, where its first national anti-hate speech law had only recently been enacted and ordinary citizens were thus less predisposed of the debate, we show that citizens' concerns about the dignity of a targeted victim lead them to support regulations. Our analysis further clarifies the possible mechanisms of the dignitarian rationale, revealing not only the people's public-centered expectation regarding the societal consequences of hate speech, which dignitarians emphasized, but also the importance of more individual-based judgments regarding morality and justice, in shaping their regulatory attitudes.

Identity, Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

In his 2018 book, Identity, the Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, Stanford University politi­cal scientist Francis Fukuyama addresses themes which might more properly be considered matters of political philosophy and the philosophy of law: How are we to navigate between traditional, ethnic, unitary conceptions of the nation on the one hand, and the threat of identitarian fragmentation on the other? Though Fukuyama affirms the importance of the concepts of human dignity and identity, more or less as these are commonly understood, he also criticizes the contemporary phenomenon of identity politics—which he views as a danger to liberal democ­racy. “The rise of identity politics in modern liberal democracies,” writes Fukuyama, “is one of the chief threats that they face;” and moreover, “unless we can work our way back to more universal understand­ings of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continuing conflict.” This paper raises the question of whether the well reasoned case against identity politics as a threat to national unity and purpose leaves room for skepticism of fast-paced and more ambitious (“Wilsonian”) pursuit of internationalist goals of globalization. Greater emphasis on political consensus at home may helpfully strengthen the hand of American foreign policy in support of liberal democracy. But we now look back with well founded skepticism on neo-conservative interventionism, and there are just and needed limits on globalizing internationalism imposed by and implicit in the retreat from identity politics. Having lost the unity of purpose of Cold War liberalism, we are yet to find a “golden mean” avoiding ethnic nationalism and short of political fragmentation.
 

Upholding dignity during a pandemic via Twitter.

Background: This article investigates how people invoked the concept of dignity on Twitter during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a secondary focus on mentions of dignity in the context of older adults and ageing. Methods: We report the results of a study that combines text analytic and interpretive methods to analyze word clusters and dignity-based themes in a cross-national sample of 1,946 original messages posted in 2020. Results: The study finds that dignity discourse on Twitter advances five major themes: (a) recognize dignity as a fundamental right, (b) uphold the dignity of essential workers, (c) preserve the dignity of at-risk populations, (d) prevent cascading disasters that exacerbate dignity's decline, and (e) attend to death, dignity, and the sanctity of life. Conclusions: Moreover, messages focusing on older adults lamented the disproportionate death toll, the terrible circumstances in long-term care homes, the added impact of suspended meal delivery services and the status of older people living below the poverty line.

Nurturing Inherent Nobility: Insights on Human Dignity from a Bahá’í Perspective

The Bahá’í Faith is an important case for a discussion on dignity, religion and human rights. Beyond the notions of dignity enshrined in its basic teachings, a core concern of the Bahá’í community is how to build dignity into the pattern of social relations of an emerging global civilization. The oneness of humanity is the core principle around which all Bahá’í teachings revolve, and within this principle is enshrined not only the inherent, God-given nobility and dignity of every individual but also the responsibility of creating new patterns of social relations, forms of community, processes of education, and structures of institutional authority that consciously strive to create a global polity that protects and affirms the dignity of all humans, in all of their diversity. In this paper, we examine the foundations of human dignity in the Bahá’í Faith in four parts. First, we explore the use of the term “dignity” in Bahá’í sacred texts and its relationship to the concepts of “nobility" and “rights”. Second, we examine how Bahá’ís seek to put into practice their conception of dignity through a democratic system of global governance, grounded in processes of consultative deliberation, referred to as the Bahá’í Administrative Order. Third, we highlight how the Bahá’í community is seeking to cultivate conditions of dignity in its current educational endeavours, which seeks to contribute to the betterment of local communities throughout the world. Fourth, we explore the ongoing and centuries-long persecution of the Bahá’ís in Iran to understand the implications of dignity in responding to oppression.

The Deconstruction of Personhood and the Rights-holder/Rights-object Binomial

A long-lasting tradition of Western thinking has considered that human nature and the individual are non-historical and self-identical; both represent a fixed and immutable reality, either because they are an expression of transcendence (scholastics) or because they are an end on their own (enlightened). This notion of the human person leads to a concept of dignity that is equally self-identical and expressed in the intrinsic value of a reality whose endpoints are perfectly delineated in a dialectical binary opposition concerning non-personal realities. As a counterpart, the thesis that declares a metaphysical closure denounces the end of that trend, as the former would lay the basis to reshape the personality, replacing the logic of the opposites with the logic of supplement, whose properly deconstructive element lies in the denial of the possibility of foundation. This implies a double destructuring movement: (a) to affirm that some nonhuman reality of the corporeal world is also personal, and (b) to deny that human reality is always and, in any case, personal. This paper aims to explain how this reconfiguration of the notions of “person” and “thing” occurs in current thinking.

A Systematic Review of Stakeholder Perspectives of Dignity and Assisted Dying.

The debate on assisted dying and its components, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has evolved with the emergence of the right to dignity and the wish to hasten death (WTHD). Whilst shaped by local legal and sociocultural considerations, appreciation of how patients, healthcare professionals and lawmakers relate notions of dignity to self-concepts of personhood and the desire for assisted dying will better inform and direct support of patients. Guided by the Systematic Evidence Based Approach, a systematic scoping review (SSR in SEBA) on perspectives of dignity, WTHD and personhood featured in PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, CINAHL, Scopus databases and four key Palliative Care journals was conducted. The review hinged on the following questions: "what is the relationship between dignity and the wish to hasten death (WTHD) in the assisted dying debate?", "how is dignity conceptualised by patients with WTHD?" and "what are prevailing perspectives on the role of assisted dying in maintaining a dying patient's dignity?" 6947 abstracts were identified, 663 full text articles reviewed, and 88 articles included. The four domains identified include 1) concepts of dignity through the lens of the Ring Theory of Personhood (RToP) including their various definitions and descriptions; 2) the relationship between dignity, WTHD and assisted dying with loss of dignity and autonomy foregrounded; 3) stakeholder perspectives for and against assisted dying including those of patient, healthcare provider and lawmaker; and 4) other dignity-conserving measures as alternatives to assisted dying. Concepts of dignity constantly evolve throughout the patient's end of life journey. Understanding when and how these concepts of personhood change and trigger the fear of a loss of dignity or intractable suffering could direct timely, individualised and appropriate person-centred dignity conserving measures. We believe an RToP-based tool could fulfil this role and further study into the design of this tool is planned.

Redefining shelter: humanitarian sheltering.

Shelter is one of the most 'intractable problems' in humanitarian aid and yet there is little clarity on an overarching definition. Terminology for shelter and housing is often conflated, and the most prominent definition does not fully reflect recent progress in the Shelter and Settlements Sector. This paper explores the varying terminology utilised in definitions of shelter within humanitarian aid since 1990, reflecting on the concepts of 'shelter' and 'housing', alongside surrounding perceptions of 'house' versus 'home', and related measures of adequacy. The current, most prolific definition is also deconstructed, demonstrating ambiguity in some of terminology such as 'dignity' and 'privacy', and revealing that interpretation of this definition depends on the reader's knowledge. Lastly, a new definition of 'sheltering' is proposed, encompassing five key reflections: the concept of process over object; the inclusion of communities and individuals; the commonality of long-term sheltering; the wider effects of shelter; and the impacts on host communities and environment.

Online safety in Kenya: A snapshot of the Silicon Savannah

This article provides an overview of online safety in Kenya by outlining key threats and the interventions that have been implemented to combat these threats. Using the social responsibility theory, this article further explores internet users' perceptions of online social responsibility in cyberspace. Results of the study indicate that the internet media environment which is characterized by interactivity significantly moderates the internet users' perception of their online social responsibility. However, despite the court suspensions of some of the laws, the existing online content regulations still have a significant influence on online safety. Consequently, the article advocates the need to associate the concept of human dignity with the responsibilities that each person must take for his or her online actions. This implies that one’s online dignity would entail one owning up to their online conduct in the quest for safe, respectful, inclusive, and harmonious cyberspace. Also, greater online social responsibility by Kenyan internet users would be necessary to foster free speech, open access, and a social culture of respecting others, and not harming others in cyberspace.

Human dignity and AI: mapping the contours and utility of human dignity in addressing challenges presented by AI

ABSTRACT The ubiquitous use of artificial intelligence (AI) can bring about both positive and negative consequences for individuals and societies. On the negative side, there is a concern not only about the impact of AI on first-order discrete individual rights (such as the right to privacy, non-discrimination and freedom of opinion and expression) but also about whether the human rights framework is fit for purpose relative to second-order challenges that cannot be effectively addressed by discrete legal rights focused upon the individual. The purpose of this article is to map the contours and utility of the concept of human dignity in addressing the second-order challenges presented by AI. Four key interpretations of human dignity are identified, namely: non-instrumentalization of the human person; the protection of certain vulnerable classes of persons; the recognition and exercise of inherent self-worth (including the exercise of individual autonomy); and a wider notion of the protection of humanity. Applying these interpretations to AI affordances, the paper argues that human dignity should foreground three second-order challenges, namely: the disembodiment of empiric self-representation and contextual sense-making; the choice architectures for the exercise of cognitive autonomy; and, the experiential context of lived experiences using the normative framework of human vulnerability.

On the Interpretive Significance and Limitation of the Confucian Concept of Virtuous Dignity

Modern Confucian scholars generally use the view of “virtuous dignity” in the modern interpretation of the idea of dignity. This view emphasizes that human dignity comes from the realization of human moral potential. The human nature thought of the theory of good nature is the value basis of this view. Due to the excessive attention to human dignity, the Confucian concept of moral dignity does not pay enough attention to “universal dignity”. I think the Confucian theory of moral dignity should take freedom rather than the realization of moral potential as the basis of dignity, so as to recognize the equality of human dignity in the sense of legal rights and the inequality in the sense of moral virtue.