Glenn Hughes (1951-2024) was professor emeritus at St. Mary's University. He was the inaugural holder of the St. Mary's Chair in Catholic Philosophy. He was the author of several books including From Dickinson to Dylan: Visions of Transcendence in Modernist Literature and Transcendence and History: The Search for Ultimacy from Ancient Societies to Postmodernity. James Greenaway is the San Jose-Lonergan Chair in Catholic Philosophy at St. Mary's University. He is the author of A Philosophy of Belonging: Persons, Politics, Cosmos.
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Foreword Preface Part 1. Preliminaries 1. Honesty 2. Meaning & Value 3. The Cosmos 4. Belonging 5. The Desire to Know 6. Myth 7. The World of Space and Time 8. Science 9. Misunderstanding Human Nature 10. Constants of Human Nature Part 2. The Idea of Inherent Human Dignity 11. Inherent Human Dignity 12. Inherent Dignity in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (I) 13. Inherent Dignity in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (II) 14. Persons, Rights, and Dignified Living 15. Digression: The Universal Search for Dignified Living 16. The Challenge of Respecting Inherent Dignity 17. Transcendent Mystery and Shakenness 18. Eclipsing Transcendent Mystery 19. Inherent Dignity as Both Concept and Mythic Symbol 20. The Refusal to Understand Inherent Dignity 21. Inherent Dignity and Ideaology Epilogue: Love and Inherent Dignity Bibliography
"Hughes shows us the way to reclaim our inherent dignity within a world of meaning. This book promises to be the go-to volume that concisely explains not just that we should affirm inherent dignity for all human beings, but how and why we must." -John von Heyking, author of Comprehensive Judgement and Absolute Selflessness "Inherent Human Dignity fills a need for a thoroughgoing philosophical defense of the notion of inherent human value and dignity." -David Baggett, co-author of The Moral Argument