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The Concept of Dignity in the Capability Approach A Personalistic Perspective

The Concept of Dignity in the Capability Approach A Personalistic Perspective. Asya Markova, PhD-Candidate New Bulgarian University Sofia Email: amarkova@nbu.bg. Research Questions. How can we develop a conceptual account of dignity that does not exclude persons with mental disabilities?

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The Concept of Dignity in the Capability Approach A Personalistic Perspective

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  1. The Concept of Dignity in the Capability ApproachA Personalistic Perspective Asya Markova, PhD-Candidate New Bulgarian University Sofia Email: amarkova@nbu.bg

  2. Research Questions • How can we develop a conceptual account of dignity that does not exclude persons with mental disabilities? • How can we overcome the rationalistic reductionism of the dominant concepts of dignity?

  3. Martha Nussbaum‘s Concept of Dignity • Critique on the rationalist grounding of human dignity in the free will, the individual autonomy, and the ability to be a party in the social contract • Respecting dignity as treating the person as end in herself in the plurality in her life-activities • Tautological argumentation as mean weakness of Nussbaum‘s conception of dignity – to live in dignity means to have the list of capabilities which a life worthy of dignity presupposes

  4. The Concept of Dignity from Gabriel Marcel’s Personalistic Perspective • A conceptualization of dignity by contrasting it to its opposite • The „spirit of abstraction“ as the opposite of human dignity • Dignity as resistance to one‘s own subordination upon abstract, impersonal terms and schemes, and as one‘s own affirmation as a person who deserved to be loved for her concrete features

  5. Conclusion Human dignity consists in the capability to resist to one‘s own stigmatization and reification by others as well as to struggle for one‘s own recognition as a particular person

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