Normative Subjects   : Self and Collectivity in Morality and Law /
Dan-Cohen, Meirauthor
Combining constructivist and hermeneutical themes, this book explores normative aspects of human self creation seen as a matter of fixing and elaborating the values and norms that shape human identity, individually and collectively. The book focuses especially on a conception of dignity as the value that accrues to us qua authors of the meanings constitutive of human life.
Specialized.
Description based upon print version of record.
Combining constructivist and hermeneutical themes, this book explores normative aspects of human self creation seen as a matter of fixing and elaborating the values and norms that shape human identity, individually and collectively. The book focuses especially on a conception of dignity as the value that accrues to us qua authors of the meanings constitutive of human life.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Specialized.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 5, 2016).
Construction and revision -- Constructing subjects -- Socializing Harry -- Revising our pasts -- Regret, luck, and identity -- Value and humanity -- Individuals, citizens, persons -- Dignity and self-creation -- A morality of crime and punishment -- Collective subjects -- Collective personhoods -- Sanctioning corporations -- Freedoms of collective speech.
Self (Philosophy)
Normativity (Ethics)
Law and ethics.