"The fundamental dispute between the conception of dignity taken by the Linacre Centre and Kant on the one hand, and by Dworkin and Beyleveld and Brownsword on the other, comes down to whether human dignity is an empowering notion, conferring rights and individual interests, or whether it is a constraint. The dispute in our view is insoluble. This is because the concept at the heart of the debate, dignity, has no clear meaning.61 Joel Feinberg uses the term dignity in a normative sense: Respect for persons may simply be respect for their rights, so that there canno be the one without the other; and what is called human dignity may simply be the recognizable capacity to assert claims. To respect a person then or think of him as possessed of human dignity is tot hink of hm as a potetial maker of claims.62"
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Summer (1987) pp.8-9; J Fienberg, “The Nature and Value of Human Rights” (1970) 4 Journal of Value Inquiry 243 at 252-253; as quoted on p.34
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