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Boxill, B. (1976) ‘Self-Respect and Protest’, Philosophy & Public Affairs
6: 58–69. (Argues that those whose self-respect is at risk must protest against injustices done to them in order to be confident that they are self-respecting.) |
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Dillon, R. (1992a) ‘How to Lose Your Self-Respect’, American Philosophical Quarterly
29: 125–139. (Explains the distinction between ‘evaluative’ and ‘recognition’ self-respect and identifies a variety of failures of self-respect.) |
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Dillon, R. (1992b) ‘Toward a Feminist Theory of Self-Respect’, Hypatia
7: 52–69. (A feminist evaluation of traditional conceptions of self-respect.) |
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Hill, T.E., Jr. (1973) ‘Servility and Self-Respect’, Monist
57: 12–27. (Extensively anthologized discussion of the concept of self-respect from a Kantian perspective.) |
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Kant, I. (1785) Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, trans. with notes by H.J.
Paton, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (originally The Moral Law), London: Hutchinson, 1948; repr. New York: Harper & Row, 1964. (Develops an ethical theory centred around a principle of morality that emphasizes the absolute worth of rational agents.) |
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Hill, T.E., Jr. (1797) Die Metaphysik der Sitten, trans.
M.J.
Gregor, The Metaphysics of Morals, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. (Presents the various duties, including the duty of self-respect, which are derived from the supreme principle of morality established in Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals.) |
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Massey, S. (1983) ‘Is Self-Respect a Moral or a Psychological Concept?’, Ethics
93: 246–261. (Offers a distinction between ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’ conceptions of self-respect and endorses the latter.) |
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Mohr, R. (1988) ‘Dignity vs. Politics: Strategy When Justice Fails’, in Gays/Justice: A Study of Ethics Society and Law, New York: Columbia University Press: 315–317. (Argues that the gay and lesbian rights movement ought to adopt strategies that promote the dignity and self-respect of gays and lesbians.) |
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Rawls, J. (1971) A Theory of Justice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Presents a theory of distributive justice according to which self-respect is a prominent social good.) |
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Thomas, L. (1978) ‘Rawlsian Self-Respect and the Black Consciousness Movement’, Philosophical Forum
9: 303–314. (Argues that the black consciousness movement was in part a call for African-Americans to respect themselves as persons.) |