Commentary: Protecting Human Dignity from the Threat of Moral Nihilism

Commentary: Protecting Human Dignity from the Threat of Moral Nihilism

The Meaning of Human Dignity It’s hard to lay down a simple definition of human dignity that everyone would agree with. Human dignity is an idea we seem to understand intuitively rather than through a formal definition. The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights opens with the statement that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” In the following articles it spells out the rights that flow from the idea of human dign…