Rationality, Markets and Morals

Studies at the Intersection of Philosophy and Economics

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Rationality, Markets, and Morals: RMM 0 (2009), 253 – 265

Dignity, Human Rights, and Democracy

Abstract

In order to ana­ly­ze what can plau­si­bly be said about the rela­ti­onship bet­ween digni­ty, human rights, and demo­cra­cy, I will pro­po­se a basic assump­ti­on about human digni­ty (I) and then for­mu­la­te five the­ses con­cer­ning the jus­ti­fi­ca­ti­on of demo­cra­cy (II) which will allow me to con­clude (III) that only when human rights are con­sti­tu­tio­nal­ly estab­lished and effec­tively imple­men­ted demo­cra­cy can be theo­re­ti­cal­ly and prac­ti­cal­ly jus­ti­fied as a poli­ti­cal means to gua­ran­tee human dignity.
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RMM is an interdisciplinary publication focusing on issues of rationality, market mechanisms, and the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects. It provides a forum for dialogue between philosophy, economics, and related disciplines, encouraging critical reflection on the foundations and implications of economic processes.

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