Sarah Buss is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. She is the author of articles on autonomy, moral responsibility, practical rationality, respect for persons, and various issues in ethics, and co-editor of The Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt (2001).
Nandi Theunissen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on foundational topics in ethics, with a focus on the nature of value, and is the author of The Value of Humanity (OUP, 2020), as well as essays on Kant's moral philosophy, regress arguments, moral realism, and the nature of well-being.
Acknowledgements List of Contributors
Introduction Sarah Buss
1. Decomposing Humanity Jon Garthoff
2. Do the Ancients See Value in Humanity? Richard Bett
3. Spinoza's Anti-Humanism: Human Value and Dignity Yitzhak Melamed
4. Slavery, Freedom, and Human Value in Early Modern Philosophy Julia Jorati
5. Valuing Humanity in 'Common Life': Grotius and Pufendorf on Equal 'Sociable' Dignity Stephen Darwall
6. The Dignity of Humanity Ralf M. Bader
7. Great Beyond All Comparison Kenneth Walden
8. Fichte on the Value of Rational Agency Michelle Kosch
9. Explaining the Value of Human Beings L. Nandi Theunissen
10. Are We of Equal Moral Worth? Andrea Sangiovanni
11. The Normative Significance of Humanity Peter Railton
12. Finding the Humean Value in Humean Humanity Don Garrett
13. Other People Kieran Setiya
14. Learning from Love: Reasoning, Respect, and the Value of a Person Kyla Ebels-Duggan
15. The Invention of Value and the Value of Humanity Elijah Millgram
16. The Human Foundations of our Political Ideals: An Essay on Gandhi's Political Radicalism Akeel Bilgrami
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