Logische Probleme bei der Bestimmung der pränatalen Menschenwürde
Anmerkungen zu einem unscharfen Rechtsbegriff

Author: Cziupka, Johannes

Source: Archiv fuer Rechts- und Sozialphilosphie, Volume 94, Number 4, October 2008 , pp. 450-460(11)

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Abstract:

This contribution investigates the logical and philosophical premises of the prevailing “static” conception of dignity, above all in the areas of prenatal human dignity, and contrasts this conception with a “dynamic” understanding of dignity. The author favours the attempt not of regarding the immanent indistinctiveness of the term “human dignity” as a problem of the legal order which necessarily ought to be eliminated, but rather of making this indistinctiveness itself useful and fertile for a “fluctuating” or fluid (i.e. because of its gradations) concept of dignity.

The above-mentioned indistinctiveness of human dignity demands a decision which reminds one that it is interwoven in a field of conceptual indistinctiveness.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2008-10-01

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Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, edited by authorisation of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), is an international, peer-reviewed journal, first published in 1907. It features original articles on philosophical research on legal and social questions, covering all aspects of social and legal life.