"It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them".
They also rest on an unexamined investment in the culture of celebrity and publicity, which, while perhaps less globally destructive than carbon-burning consumerism, can have a corrosive effect on individual dignity and collective morality.
But challenges also come from divergent conceptions and understandings of human rights, human dignity, morality and responsibility, and from different interpretations and applications of the core principles of human rights.
Students reported a negative perceived association between religion and morality, spirituality and human dignity.
"[A]esthetic dignity," he claimed, "belongs to aesthetic magnitude as a part to the whole," but if a work of art represents moral agents then it cannot be maximally beautiful without representing moral dignity, and it certainly cannot be beautiful if it conveys an attitude contrary to morality.
Obama, she writes, "lost his morality, his dignity and his mind, using the solemn occasion of Nelson Mandela's memorial service Tuesday to act like a hormone-ravaged frat boy on a road trip to a strip bar".
A decision that would honor humanity, dignity, morality and all of the other things that this presidency does not.
"We were looking for an actor who had composure and dignity and a maturity of spirit and a morality and a sober-mindedness".
The part went to Gregory Peck, an actor so closely associated with "composure and dignity and a maturity of spirit and a morality and a sober-mindedness" that, years later, "Capote" 's Bennett Miller may have momentarily thought of him for Harper Lee.
