Muders Sebastian
Camb Q Healthc Ethics. 2016 Apr;25(2):239-49. doi: 10.1017/S0963180115000547.
One of the widely recognized facts about human dignity is its vastly divergent applicability-from highly controversial issues in bioethics to broader topics in political philosophy. A group of theories that this article subsumes under the header "natural good theories" appears to be especially fitted for normatively multifaceted notions like dignity. However, the heavy normative weight the concept of dignity has to bear due to the central position it occupies within these theories creates its own difficulties. As is shown in a discussion of Martha Nussbaum's capability conception of dignity, dignity appears to be unable to mirror the special normative relevance people want to assign to it in cases of great moral misconduct. The article provides a suggestion on how to solve this problem by means of paradigmatic cases that work as material constraints regarding the exact boundaries of dignity violations.
关于人类尊严，一个广为人知的事实是它的适用性差异极大——从生物伦理中极具争议的问题到政治哲学中更广泛的话题。本文归入“自然善理论”标题下的一组理论似乎特别适合像尊严这样在规范层面具有多面性的概念。然而，由于尊严概念在这些理论中占据核心地位而必须承载的沉重规范分量，也带来了自身的难题。正如在对玛莎·努斯鲍姆的尊严能力概念的讨论中所表明的那样，在重大道德失当的情况下，尊严似乎无法反映人们想要赋予它的特殊规范相关性。本文就如何通过作为尊严侵犯确切界限的实质性约束的范例性案例来解决这一问题提出了建议。
