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Free Download The good life : aspiration, dignity, and the anthropology of wellbeing By Fischer, Edward F
2014 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0804790965 | EPUB | 11 MB
What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups use the market in pursuit of the "good life." But what exactly is the good life? How do we define wellbeing beyond material standards of living? While we all may want to live the good life, we differ widely on just what that entails. In The Good Life, Edward Fischer examines wellbeing in very different cultural contexts to uncover shared notions of the good life and how best to achieve it. With fascinating on-the-ground narratives of Germans’ choices regarding the purchase of eggs and cars, and Guatemalans’ trade in coffee and cocaine, Fischer presents a richly layered understanding of how aspiration, opportunity, dignity, and purpose comprise the good life.

Free Download Marketplace Dignity
by Lamberton, Cait;Saldanha, Neela A.;Wein, Tom;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1613631758 | 153 pages | PDF, True EPUB | 11.68 MB

Free Download Eric Mason, "Urban Apologetics: Restoring Black Dignity with the Gospel"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0310100941 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 0.9 mb
Urban Apologetics examines the legitimate issues that Black communities have with Western Christianity and shows how the gospel of Jesus Christ-rather than popular, socioreligious alternatives-restores our identity.

Free Download City of Dignity: Christianity, Liberalism, and the Making of Global Los Angeles (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Sean T. Dempsey
English | December 20, 2022 | ISBN: 0226823768 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 0.7 MB
City of Dignity illuminates how liberal Protestants quietly, yet indelibly, shaped the progressive ethics of postwar Los Angeles.

Free Download Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (Studies in Jewish History) by Marion A. Kaplan
English | April 23, 1998 | ISBN: 0195115317, 0195130928 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 2.6 MB
Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany.

Free Download The Importance of Assent: A Theory of Coercion and Dignity By Jan-Willem Van der Rijt (auth.)
2012 | 158 Pages | ISBN: 9400707657 | PDF | 2 MB
The view that persons are entitled to respect because of their moral agency is commonplace in contemporary moral theory. What exactly this respect entails, however, is far less uncontroversial. In this book, Van der Rijt argues powerfully that this respect for persons’ moral agency must also encompass respect for their subjective moral judgments – even when these judgments can be shown to be fundamentally flawed. Van der Rijt scrutinises the role persons’ subjective moral judgments play within the context of coercion and domination. His fresh, original analysis of Kant’s third formulation of the Categorical Imperative reveals how these judgments are intimately connected to a person’s dignity. The result is an insightful new account of coercion, a novel Kantian reformulation of the republican notion of non-domination and a compelling, innovative argument in favour of retributive justice."In this admirably clear and insightful work, Van der Rijt develops an original account of coercion and dignity. On the basis of his analysis of the relation between these two concepts, he also provides an intriguing new angle on the nature of republicanism. I recommend this book to anyone interested in freedom and power and their roles in normative political theory."Ian Carter – University of Pavia"In this carefully argued and original study Jan-Willem van der Rijt offers an analysis of coercion, a broadly Kantian argument that coercion is an affront to dignity, and an illuminating contrast with Philip Pettit’s republicanism. A most welcome contribution."Thomas E. Hill, Jr. – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"Jan-Willem van der Rijt has written a well argued, original book that will prove to be extremely helpful for the philosophical inquiry of the relationship between coercion and human dignity as well as for the assessment of republicanism and its consequences."Ralf Stoecker – University of Potsdam

Free Download Humiliation, Degradation, Dehumanization: Human Dignity Violated By Paulus Kaufmann, Hannes Kuch, Christian Neuhäuser, Elaine Webster (auth.), Paulus Kaufmann, Hannes Kuch, Christian Neuhaeuser, Elaine Webster (eds.)
2011 | 266 Pages | ISBN: 9048196604 | PDF | 3 MB
Degradation, dehumanization, instrumentalization, humiliation, and nonrecognition – these concepts point to ways in which we understand human beings to be violated in their dignity. Violations of human dignity are brought about by concrete practices and conditions; some commonly acknowledged, such as torture and rape, and others more contested, such as poverty and exclusion. This volume collates reflections on such concepts and a range of practices, deepening our understanding of human dignity and its violation, bringing to the surface interrelationships and commonalities, and pointing to the values that are thereby shown to be in danger. In presenting a streamlined discussion from a negative perspective, complemented by conclusions for a positive account of human dignity, the book is at once a contribution to the body of literature on what dignity is and how it should be protected as well as constituting an alternative, fresh and focused perspective relevant to this significant recurring debate. As the concept of human dignity itself crosses disciplinary boundaries, this is mirrored in the unique range of perspectives brought by the book’s European and American contributors – in philosophy and ethics, law, human rights, literature, cultural studies and interdisciplinary research. This volume will be of interest to social and moral philosophers, legal and human rights theorists, practitioners and students.

Free Download Michael P Foran, "Equality Before the Law: Equal Dignity, Wrongful Discrimination, and the Rule of Law "
English | ISBN: 1509964940 | 2023 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 425 KB + 3 MB

Free Download The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work (Working Class in American History) by Mark Erlich
English | July 18th, 2023 | ISBN: 025208733X | 160 pages | True EPUB | 7.92 MB
The construction trades once provided unionized craftsmen a route to the middle class and a sense of pride and dignity often denied other blue-collar workers. Today, union members still earn wages and benefits that compare favorably to those of college graduates. But as union strength has declined over the last fifty years, a growing non-union sector offers lower compensation and more hazardous conditions, undermining the earlier tradition of upward mobility. Revitalization of the industry depends on unions shedding past racial and gender discriminatory practices, embracing organizing, diversity, and the new immigrant workforce, and preparing for technological changes.

Free Download John Douglas Macready, "Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity"
English | ISBN: 149855489X | 2017 | 152 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity, John Douglas Macready offers a post-foundational account of human dignity by way of a reconstructive reading of Hannah Arendt. He argues that Arendt’s experience of political violence and genocide in the twentieth century, as well as her experience as a stateless person, led her to rethink human dignity as an intersubjective event of political experience. By tracing the contours of Arendt’s thoughts on human dignity through a close reading of her published works, letters, lectures, and journals, Macready offers convincing evidence that Arendt was engaged in retrieving the political experience that gave rise to the concept of human dignity in order to move beyond the traditional accounts of human dignity that relied principally on the status and stature of human beings. This allowed Arendt to retrofit the concept for a new political landscape and reconceive human dignity in terms of stance-how human beings stand in relationship to one another. Macready elucidates Arendt’s latent political ontology as a resource for developing strictly political account of human dignity hat he calls conditional dignity-the view that human dignity is dependent on political action, namely, the preservation and expression of dignity by the person who bears it, and/or the recognition by the political community to which the person belongs or seeks membership. Macready then situates the notion of conditional dignity within Arendt’s political ontology and shows how it informed her notion of political personhood, which relies on a recognitive politics that emphasizes the co-responsibility of individuals and political regimes to insist upon the right of human beings to have a place in the world. He argues that it is precisely this "right" to have a place in the world-the right to belong to a political community and never to be reduced to the status of stateless animality-that indicates the political meaning of human dignity in Arendt’s political philosophy.