Dignity and Vulnerability: Strength and Quality of Character Harris George W.
Dignity and Vulnerability: Strength and Quality of Character Harris George W. In this significant addition to moral theory, George W. He argues that we do not, in fact, believe this view, which…
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Dignity and Vulnerability: Strength and Quality of Character Harris George W.
In this significant addition to moral theory, George W. He argues that we do not, in fact, believe this view, which traces any breakdowns of character to failures of strength. Harris challenges a view of the dignity and worth of persons that goes back through Kant and Christianity to the Stoics.
At the most profound level, we value ourselves as natural organisms, as animals, rather than as godlike beings who transcend nature.The Kantian-Christian-Stoic tradition holds that if we were fully able to realize our dignity as Kantians, Christians, or Stoics, we would be better, stronger people, and therefore less vulnerable to character breakdown. When it comes to what we actually value in ourselves and others, he says, we are far more Greek than Christian. Dignity and Vulnerability offers an opposing view, that sometimes character breaks down not because of some shortcoming in