A philosopher of the Renaissance, Pico della Mirandola, granted dignity to ideas and to beings. In his " Oration on the Dignity of Man", he told hostile clerics about the dignity of the liberal arts and about the dignity and the glory of angels. His comments implied the dignity of philosophers. [16] This oration is commonly seen as one of the central texts of the Renaissance, intimately tied with the growth of humanist philosophies. [17] [18] Kant [ edit ]

Ultimately, the Buddhist understanding of human dignity is rooted in the idea that we are able to choose the path of self-perfection...... This state of self-perfection—a condition of fully developed courage, wisdom and compassion—is described as Buddhahood or enlightenment. The idea that all people—all life, in fact—have this potential is expressed by the concept, stressed particularly in the Mahayana tradition, that all living beings possess Buddha nature. [43] United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights [ edit ] Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, trans. by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Second Section: Transition From Popular Moral Philosophy To The Metaphysic Of Morals). In 2008, The President's Council on Bioethics tried to arrive at a consensus about what dignity meant but failed. Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., the council's chairman, says in the Letter of Transmittal to the President of The United States, "… there is no universal agreement on the meaning of the term, human dignity." [51] Law [ edit ] According to residents’ narratives, important dignity-conserving abilities came from within themselves. Dignity-conserving interventions did occur, such as emphatic listening and bodily care, performed in respect for residents’ preferences. However, no strategies for future crises or preparing for death were observed. To protect residents’ dignity, NHs must apply a palliative care approach to provide holistic care that comprises attention to personal, bodily, social, spiritual, and psychological needs to increase well-being and prevent suffering.

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SOU. Läs mig! Nationell kvalitetsplan för vård och omsorg om äldre personer. Del 2. 2017, 21. [Read me! National quality plan for care of the elderly. Part 2]. https://www.regeringen.se/4969b7/contentassets/9378aff4b35a427c99b772345af79539/sou-2017_21_webb_del1.pdf. Accessed 14 Mar 2022. Piechowiak, Marek. Plato's Conception of Justice and the Question of Human Dignity. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019; second edition, revised and extended, Berlin: Peter Lang 2021. doi: 10.3726/b18092. Pallipedia. Palliative care – 2018 IAHPC consensus based definition https://pallipedia.org/palliative-care-2018-iahpc-consensus-based-definition/. Accessed 14 Mar 2022.Human dignity is the fundamental principle of the German constitution. Article 1, paragraph 1 reads: "Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority." Human dignity is thus mentioned even before the right to life. This has a significant impact on German law-making and jurisdiction in both serious and trivial items: The abiding difficulty with the natural law approach is that its assumptions, intellectual procedures, and modalities of justification can be employed equally by the proponents of human dignity and the proponents of human indignity in support of diametrically opposed empirical specifications of rights... Canada [ edit ] Sweet, William. [1]. 'Whose Dignity is it Anyway? Lecture presented as part of the 'Breakfast on the Hill' series, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada, May 2007. Elo S, Kyngäs H. The qualitative content analysis process. J Adv Nurs. 2008;62:107–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04569.x Shultziner, Doron; Rabinovici, Itai (2012). "Human Dignity, Self-Worth and Humiliation: A Comparative Legal–Psychological Approach". Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 18 (1): 105. doi: 10.1037/a0024585.