La dignidad como principio deontológico del humanismo
ISSN: 0214-7300
Year of publication: 2022
Issue: 117
Pages: 97-122
Type: Article
More publications in: Paideia: Revista de filosofía y didáctica filosófica
Abstract
We believe that humanism is built on the universal recognition of the human being as a person and such recognition would not be possible without the assumption of the principle of human dignity. Dignity would be a deontological principle of humanism insofar as there are no exogenous reasons that explain the self-referential value of the human being yet it must be presupposed as a non-exclusive foundation of human rights. Now, this sense of dignity would have two main focuses: one ontological, postulating the universal recognition of the human being as a person and another ethical level, which would correspond to the moral requirement to respect the moral autonomy of oneself and others.