Value Of Human Dignity Research Articles

Philosophy of Human Dignity in the Problem Field of the Global World

The article discusses human dignity in the aspect of modern challenges of technological civilization, which has entered a new stage of its development. Human dignity as a category of ethics remains underestimated, since in the first row of ethical values humanitarians, as a rule, put the categories of freedom and justice. Today, “dignity” acquires a special and higher status, the concept of human dignity is being rethought, going beyond the ethical category itself as a virtue. In the global world, human dignity is a response to such contemporary challenges as the formation of a communicative world community with a focus on digital civilization, the anthropological problem of the future of humanity, the ecological situation on a global scale, the reorientation of the ethical and legal relations of a globalizing world. Human dignity is a problem of national-ethnic and national-state relations in the transition to transnational regulatory interactions. In the interpretation of the nation, the authors do not share the well-known two approaches to understanding the nation, on the one hand ethnocultural, and on the other - national-civil. Both approaches lead, whenever possible or necessary, to the transnational posing of the question, when human dignity becomes a priority regardless of nationality. In this connection, the utopian idea of the possibility of a global ethos is touched upon. The authors focus on the anthropoxy-axiological approach to the understanding of human dignity, where the cosmological principle of human existence is determined by his creative power. The urgency of the problem of human dignity is due to the fact that, as it were, in the modern life world a person did not put the economy above morality, the basis of human dignity in its being is a value moral consciousness, in the depth of which basic human values of transnational nature “work”, contradicting values consumer society driven by practical interests. Human dignity in this regard should be interpreted as an absolute value and at the same time one should take into account the multidimensionality of the problem of dignity in the context of modern globalization processes. Based on the ontological understanding of globalization as megatrends in the self-movement of the natural historical process, the authors substantiate the anthropological value of human dignity, which has universal, transcultural significance. The use of an anthropoxy-axiological approach and interdisciplinary methods reveals the universal value of virtue, based on the anthropo-social moral nature and the creative value of man. The creative transformational activity itself will not be worthy in quality without moral responsibility. The modern concept of human dignity is addressed to the ethics of responsibility, which means responsibility, which highlights the moral and axiological attitude to life, the adoption of responsible decisions in modern conditions of sociocultural interactions. In the context of globalization, the philosophy of human dignity becomes the dominant of all conscious-volitional activities, the core of the moral rethinking of the transnational and national ratio in the light of tolerance, the ability to non-violence. At the same time, the authors indicate in the formulation of the main issue of the philosophy of human dignity the possibility of going beyond the ethical category of human dignity, since the unchanging core of the universal human values of goodness-beauty-truth does not lose its meaning in the global, changing world.

The Corporate Legal Implications of Violating the Right to Education in the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon

This article is an introspective perspective of the place of the right to education in Anglophone Cameroon in the current Anglophone crisis. The article is written specifically in mind to cover the gaps, the missing link of educational services and the right to education currently being violated in English Cameroon. It discusses some of the particular cases of educational right violations. The right to education in Cameroon is clearly and completely statutorily. This has also been enunciated in the constitution of Cameroon and it is expressly engraved in some international rights frameworks. Since the constitution of Cameroon nor any other law does not empower anybody to encroach into the right to education in Cameroon and beyond, consequently we examine some of the legal effects of educational apathy in the Anglophone regions caused by violent aggressors and we suggest solutions under the purview of the law. It is objective practice that, whenever any right is violated explicitly, there must be a dispassionate institution of legal remedies as provided under the law. Violating the right to education is harming the victims who are beneficiaries of the said right. The grave and mischievous acts against education conducted against a great number of Anglophone children and students have been treated in this article. The Anglophone crisis has seen the violation of several rights in Anglophone Cameroon. Despite the interventions taken by the Cameroonian government through the-inter ministerial adhoc committee with strategic measures made to settle the protests which were initiated by teachers and lawyers since 2016. There has also been a brick wall placed by separatists’ fighters on the right to education in Anglophone Cameroon. While using the military to fight the separatists, the Cameroon army has been very decisive in their actions on the streets, highways, schools and communities with its own violations of the right to education in several communities. Dimensionally, in a host of communities, there has been a serious violation of the right to education by suspected armed separatists and Cameroonian troops who continue to trade blames and counter accusations fighting each other without employing and sourcing for a lasting solution. In addressing this problem to change the situation, we call for further responsibility amongst civil authorities to support, lead and embark on operations which will encourage the right to education under the purview of the law. Multiple intervention measures should be taken without breaking down the link of communication at any moment with educational stakeholders. There must be an immediate point of departure between the fighting parties because such fragrant violations of the educational rights in the constitution do not comply with the values of human dignity. We suggest the Cameroon government continue reaching out with the Anglophone aggrieved members without any break in applicable rules of engagement for lasting solutions.

Las agravantes de género del delito de homicidio en el Código penal argentino y la dignidad humana

The value of human dignity is a core concept to limit the punitive power in the context of a State of law. In it, the respect of human dignity an unwavering starting point. When we inquire about it content, the human dignity gets identified with the equality or the autonomy. The human dignity is not a legal concept which can be expressed in specific rules. Foremost, it is a moral concept which has different levels of significance depending on its context and linguistic function. Thus, we will inquire about its meaning according to the Kantian ethic. The content of it will constitute the theoretical framework we will analyse from the gender-based aggravations of the criminal offence of homicide of the Argentinian Penal Code, being our main question: these aggravations contradict the concept of human dignity?.

Las agravantes de género del delito de homicidio en el Código penal argentino y la dignidad humana:

The value of human dignity is a core concept to limit the punitive power in the context of a State of law. In it, the respect of human dignity an unwavering starting point. When we inquire about it content, the human dignity gets identified with the equality or the autonomy. The human dignity is not a legal concept which can be expressed in specific rules. Foremost, it is a moral concept which has different levels of significance depending on its context and linguistic function. Thus, we will inquire about its meaning according to the Kantian ethic. The content of it will constitute the theoretical framework we will analyse from the gender-based aggravations of the criminal offence of homicide of the Argentinian Penal Code, being our main question: these aggravations contradict the concept of human dignity?.

HOUSING AND INTEGRATING REFUGEES: SOUTH AFRICA’S EXCLUSIONARY APPROACH

The article seeks to illuminate South Africa’s exclusionary approach towards housing refugees and asylum seekers, and to integrating them into the economy. To this end, this article argues that the exclusionary approach conflicts with and is in violation of the constitutional values of human dignity, equality and freedom on which South Africa’s refugee law is based. The article employs a qualitative research methodology to illustrate that policy issues are acting as barriers to accessing housing programmes. It makes recommendations on how to close the gaps in housing law to ensure that future planning and implementation of housing policies are in harmony with refugee policies. Finally, innovative and creative solutions to the challenges that refugees and asylum seekers face in the housing sector are drawn from the learning processes acquired from past experience.

Конституция РФ, права человека и достоинство личности: диалог конституционной теории, практики конституционного правосудия и международных норм

The article discusses the issues of nature and the value of human dignity in constitutional and international discourse, how the Constitution of the Russian Federation regulates the human dignity, the doctrinal and judicial constitutionalization of human dignity, the divergent nature and legal polymorphism of human dignity as a legal category

Cosmos and Republic: A Hidden Dialogue between Hannah Arendt and Alexander von Humboldt

This text brings together two ideas, those of Hannah Arendt’s republicanism and Alexander von Humboldt’s cosmopolitanism. Both ways of thinking are seen as alternatives to a republican-biocentric perspective to the current problematic areas of the political and ecological crises. Arendt’s critique of the modern natural sciences and the associated alienation from the earth, which still characterizes the current relationship to nature today, will be presented first. This critique is closely related to Arendt’s thesis of world loss, i.e., the loss of the interpersonal pluralistic sphere. As an alternative to both forms of loss, Arendt develops the concept of an independent sphere of the political based on inter-personality, harmony with nature, and dialogical and consensual politics. While Arendt approaches nature from Kant’s definition of self- and world-relationship and from her own definition of sustainable politics, Humboldt goes the opposite way, that is, from respecting nature as an independent organism to a republican understanding of politics that, like Arendt, rejects the exploitation of humans as well as nature. Arendt and Humboldt both belong to the tradition of the Enlightenment that (in addition to phenomenology, self-reflection, the values of human dignity and human rights, and the unity of understanding and feeling) also includes a cosmopolitanism and freedom of movement for acting and judging citizens.

The Value of Human Dignity in the Refugee Protection

This article seeks to illuminate the significance and importance of human dignity in the evolution of the legal protection of refugees and asylum-seekers at international, continental and national level. Human dignity “as a value and a right“ plays an important role in the interpretation of the rights as outlined in the South African Bill of Rights and the various laws and policies that give effect to them. The article demonstrates how human dignity contributed (and still contributes) to the advancement of South Africa's refugee regime, whose main objective is to ensure that refugees and asylum-seekers are afforded access to their constitutional rights. A further objective is ensuring that refugees and asylum-seekers are afforded the kind of treatment that is consistent with global and constitutional standards of dignity, which inform the ethics of refugee reception and treatment.

Becoming ethical through relational interaction: An examination of a performance among internally displaced persons in Nigeria

Abstract Ethics is a set of moral principles that seeks to guide researchers from harming those they research. These moral principles aim to protect humanity, establish and sustain a progressive value system that respects and promotes human dignity. Although how ethical consideration is envisioned can be universal, how it is enacted and performed can be relative. It is based on certain contingences that are culturally specific and peculiar. In this article, I argue that irrespective of the universality of some ethical considerations, relational interaction becomes a guiding principle that makes how ethical protocols are achieved relative. Relational interaction emphasizes the other over oneself; hence, it is not transactional. It has at its core quality interaction because it does not maximize self-interest to the detriment of the other. Thus, as varied as these ethical issues are, I argue that what stands at the heart of any appropriate ethical protocol is qualitative humanistic interaction established on values of human dignity, respect, quality welfare, empathy and justice. The idea of relational interaction fosters collaboration, understanding, communication and relationship. These universal ethical protocols are advanced in specific ways as cultures interact and people interpret value systems. I investigate how ethical nuances were explored through performances in internally displaced people camps in Nigeria. Ethical protocol is another performance that positions artists to be responsible and be held responsible for moral practices. I conclude that relational interaction poses a dialogic, responsible, accountable and construction of self in relations to alterity and cultural ethos.

Introduction to the Special Issue: The Right to the Protection of One's Own Image in Ibero-America and Its Relevance for the Right of Publicity in Common Law Countries

Introduction to the Special Issue: The Right to the Protection of One's Own Image in Ibero-America and Its Relevance for the Right of Publicity in Common Law Countries

Enacting Social Justice in Education through Spiritual Leadership

Promulgated by Nelson Mandela in December 1996, South Africa’s post-Apartheid Constitution draws on the Bill of Rights to affirm the democratic values of human dignity, equality and freedom. As an emerging democracy, South Africa further seeks to address issues of social justice and equality in education through the South African Schools Act of 1996. This Act sets out policies and practices intended to redress past injustices and support the rights of learners, educators and parents. Drawing on critical feminist theory, this study explored the experiences of female educational leaders in South Africa’s disadvantaged rural school communities. This qualitative research project adopted a case study research design. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and observations. The aims of this paper are: (i) to investigate the principles of social justice and equity as expressed through spiritual leadership; and (ii) to interpret these principles in relation to education policies. Identifying connectedness and spirituality as prerequisites for spiritual leadership, the study found that spiritual leadership is a means through which social justice leadership can be enacted. While the South African Schools Act upholds the notion that public schools promote democracy through respect for all and tolerance of diverse religious beliefs, this paper does not conflate spirituality with religion. It instead, explores alternative interpretations which explore spiritual leadership and restorative justice as vehicles through which equity and social justice can be understood and enacted.

The Evolution of Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support

This article focuses on an analysis of trends in the Journal of Positive Behavorial Interventions (JPBI) since its inception. The primary emphasis is on the variables that contributed to the origin of the journal. Key researchers and other professionals felt that there was a need for a new field (with a new journal) in order to meet an unfullfilled demand. This new field would need to emphasize values of human dignity, nonaversive behavioral interventions, and data to support claims of effectiveness. Thus, both values and science were key elements of JPBI right from the very start, and have continued until the present time. These emphases have resulted in JPBI becoming one of the premier journals in the behavioral sciences, with an enthusiastic, competent, and ever growing number of members. The future looks bright.

CREATING A POSITIVE CLASSROOM CLIMATE TO ADDRESS DISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS FOR QUALITY EDUCATION

This paper contests the act of subjecting students to corporal punishment by the schools’ administrators and teachers as a sure means of correcting disciplinary problems in the schools. It outlines effects of corporal punishment on students as; affecting their reasoning abilities, deter their social interaction and mutual understanding, hinders active participation in their academics activities etc. It also identifies some contributing factors behind prevalence of corporal punishment in schools such as; poverty, environment, temperament etc. This paper argues for; having classroom norms, making your class interesting, value of human dignity, understanding the meaning behind the behavior etc. as ingredients of positive classroom climate. It finally suggests that; positive disciplinary actions should be imbedded in teachers’ training program curriculum, remuneration of teachers should be increased to reduce their level of poverty, ministries of education at all levels should be organizing capacity building workshops in the most demanding areas of education such as; disciplinary management, class control, teaching methodology and resources etc. for teachers and schools’ administrators at least once in every two years.

Global Values and the Institutions of the United Nations

Abstract A constitution defines the values of a particular community, and establishes institutions to realize these values. In defence of the argument that the United Nations Charter is the world’s constitution, I will try to show that it contains the shared values and norms of the international community, and that the UN’s organs are tasked with the promotion and protection of the shared values and norms as defined in the UN Charter. The focus is on the values of human dignity and peace and security.

Die beperkings van regstellende gelykheid

Die beperkings van regstellende gelykheid

Research on the New Testament and Early Christian Literature May Assist the Churches in Setting Ethical Priorities

Research on the New Testament and Early Christian Literature May Assist the Churches in Setting Ethical Priorities Bernadette J. Brooten The hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #SayHerName remind non-African Americans of issues that black communities in the United States have long faced: disproportionate police killings of black persons of all genders, mass incarceration of black and brown persons, economic and educational disadvantages, discrimination in housing, racial and sexual stereotypes that harm both rape complainants and defendants, and so on. I view these issues through a deep lens into history, extending back from Jim and Jane Crow through to religiously sanctioned legal slavery, behind that to the Vatican-approved onset of the Portuguese and Spanish slave trades with West Africa, canon-law sanctioned slavery going back from the Middle Ages to late antiquity, and to the Christian Bible, both testaments of which tolerate slavery. To be sure, Christians were at the forefront of opposing slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and many other factors have played a role in arriving at the current situation. Nevertheless, the Bible and the ancient sources of canon law served as justifications for the slavery whose legacies linger. My mentor Krister Stendahl’s concept of the “public health” aspect of New Testament studies has inspired me to undertake research that may limit harm caused to marginalized persons through specific uses of the New Testament and further the values of human dignity and equality as these interact with the Bible. To that end, most of my research has consisted of historically grounded, close analysis of New Testament, contemporaneous, and other ancient texts, each of which has some relevance for contemporary public and religious debates. I see my work as part of a broader mosaic of scholarly contributions that, together, can provide solid historical depth and religious literacy in contemporary policy discussions. I am reflecting here on how I, as a biblical scholar, respond to structural racism and other contemporary forms of inequality. [End Page 229] As I contemplated current racial and gender inequities and considered how I, as a scholar of the New Testament and of Jewish and early church history in the Roman period, could contribute to solving these pressing ethical problems, I determined that collaboration was the best way to observe connections and contrasts, thereby creating a deep historical picture. Within the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project that I direct, a group of outstanding scholars specializing in several religious traditions and periods of history and in ethics, theology, and law, and activists in the areas of US incarceration practices and contemporary slavery made that possible. In addition, artists in dance, music, and poetry, as well as musicologists, helped audiences to shift their vision, to see the world around them in new ways. Collaborators sought to address the nexus of slavery, religion, and sexuality, especially as it has impacted women and girls. The collaboration resulted in Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies (2010), as well as an archive of the public conference on the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project’s website.1 The team of scholars, artists, and activists investigated this issue beginning with the Bible and the ancient Near East and extending through to early Christianity; the Talmud; early Islamic jurisprudence; sixteenth-century Valencia; US slavery, including the use of the Bible in antebellum slavery debates; contemporary incarceration practices in the US; welfare reform; reparations for slavery; contemporary cultural depictions of slavery; a reading of the Bible and the Qur’an on slavery by a formerly enslaved woman; and poetry inspired by these themes. The researchers ascertained that sexual access by masters to enslaved women and girls and, although far less frequently acknowledged, to men, boys, and persons of other genders, has de facto characterized the slavery systems analyzed. While the Qur’an and early Islamic jurisprudence explicitly allowed a master sexual access to his enslaved women and girls, which the jurists then regulated by obligating masters vis-à-vis the slave-woman or slave-girl and the child of such a union, the Jewish and Christian Bibles, the Talmud, and the ancient sources of canon law did not prohibit such sexual access even as they showed awareness that such contact occurred in their own communities...

Self-Determination as Foundation to Indigenous Peoples’ Rights

Developed in the 15th Century through a series of pontifical writings, the “The doctrine of discovery” helped western countries to put in place a domination system depriving indigenous peoples’ rights, most especially the rights to a land and access to their resources. That article tries to show that, it is through the self determination that indigenous people can do away with a segregationist system that has kept them into a state of alienation, defend their rights and fight against all sorts of discrimination due to the fact that they belong to a group different from the majority. However, The declaration of the United Nations on the Rights of indigenous people, it acknowledges the right to self-determination enable the indigenous people to get organized to improve their situation on political, economic, social and cultural plans and end all kinds of discrimination and oppressions wherever it is operates. The self-determination can the make it possible to obstruct the forced assimilation policy and makes cultural diversity possible as values of human dignity. The rationale behind this study was to demonstrate that it is only through auto determination that indigenous people can do away with a segregationist system that keep them in an alienation state. It enables them defend their rights and fight against all kinds of discrimination caused by their belonging to a group different from the majority. In the academia, this study helps to understand the principle of auto determination based on the distinction made between “External auto determinations” for claims over independences and “internal auto determination” laying foundations to the claims of indigenous people of recognitions of their cultural, social, economic and political identity in the realm of internal autonomy. This study exposes the relevance of auto determination concept in the overall promotion and protection of right of indigenous people and in its contributions to legal framework related to the matter. Our methodology was mainly of a qualitative kind of research where the primal goal was to offer a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon of discrimination of indigenous people, tracing its historical and theoretical background to arrive to the formulation of possible way out towards to do away with discrimination. It was therefore a blend of descriptive and normative form methods that led us to come to make a use of a dialectic form of analysis (thesis, antithesis and synthesis) to arrive to the proposed solutions.

Justificaciones minimalistas y republicanas del deber de asistencia a los pobres en el Estado kantiano

Este trabajo tiene por objetivo evaluar los distintos argumentos que se han elaborado para explicar el deber de asistencia a los pobres en la filosofía política kantiana. En primer lugar, nos concentraremos en desarrollar, puntualizar y criticar los intentos de justificación de dicho deber a partir de concepciones minimalistas del Estado, consideraciones instrumentales o apelaciones al valor de la dignidad humana. Acto seguido, examinaremos los principales argumentos de corte republicano que se han elaborado a los mismos efectos. Dado que unos y otros se muestran insatisfactorios, intentaremos esbozar la estructura de un argumento más robusto en favor del deber de asistencia a los pobres a partir del concepto de “posesión común originaria del suelo”.

Private Law and the European Constitutionalisation of Values

According to the CFREU, the EU is founded on the general values such as values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity. In addition, the TEU refers to a more political set of foundational values, ie respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights. These references could be understood as purely ornamental, or as irrelevant in any case for private law. Indeed, it is true that the Court of Justice so far has never made any references to these values in private law cases. Still, the Court already has shown boldness before in the context of the interpretation and review of secondary EU law in private law cases, when it discovered general principles of EU law and general principles of civil law. Therefore, it should not be excluded that the Court may be tempted one day to follow the example of the German constitutional court that famously understands its national constitution as expressing an objective system of constitutional values. This paper explores what such an understanding of private law as an instrument for furthering common European values would entail and examines whether such an ethical reading of European private law would be desirable. It argues that the promotion by the EU of a set of official values through its laws is not compatible we the respect we owe each other in a society characterised by reasonable pluralism. In addition, it points to further difficulties, both of a moral and a practical nature, of the idea of advancing ethical values through private law. It concludes that although it is very well thinkable that the values to which the TEU and the Charter refer will one day be interpreted as an objective value system with (indirect) horizontal effects, the Court of Justice nevertheless should refrain from going down that road.

Treinamento e desenvolvimento de pessoal: agregando valor às pessoas e à organização

The article aims to identify the possibilities of inclusion of people through training and development, carrying out the study at the Center of continuous training of the Fire Department of Santa Catarina. It was developed as a participatory research, through non-structured interviews with open questions, in a Itajai Valley corporation covering three municipalities along the highway BR 470, which has a high traffic accident rate. The selection process for volunteer firefighters had 46 candidates, among them the brothers P. In the first stage of the selection, the result presented by the brothers was unsatisfactory, but by decision of the Continuing Training Center both received the opportunity to continue, considering not only performance, but their education, simplicity, humbleness and interest. During the training the resourcefulness of the brothers was observed, being notorious the application of knowledge in daily life, autonomy, forward thinking and judgment in decision making. At the end of the course the P brothers were the ones who had 100% attendance and considering their initial difficulties, they stood out in the program, being approved with merit. Both opted to take work at the corporation on Sundays with fixed schedule. What was observd was a unique experience that has occurred in training for volunteer firefighters and the various aspects of human development, considering the decision of being willing to learn, motivation; influence of the context, knowledge; team spirit and, above all, the value of human dignity in the simplest aspects, such as friendliness and the desire to do good.