An introduction to questions in applied ethics and philosophy of law about human and animal dignity, and the prohibition on degrading treatment and...

Protecting Dignity:  Degradation, Captivity and the Vulnerable (PHIL0185)

An introduction to questions in applied ethics and philosophy of law about human and animal dignity, and the prohibition on degrading treatment and punishment.

We explore conceptions of dignity and degradation, and examine the characteristics and any wrong inherent in degrading treatment and punishment, as imposed upon prisoners, people held in detention centres, people with dementia and other disabilities, and non-human animals.

The course includes readings in applied ethics, jurisprudence and international human rights law.

The course will include lectures on the following ten topics:

Distinctions: torture, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment
	Degrading treatment and punishment
	Corporal punishment and bodily searches
	Kantian dignity and respect for persons: Korsgaard, Wood, Parfit, Kerstein
	Contemporary accounts of dignity: Waldron, Rosen, Hill
	Advocates of human dignity: Velleman, Nussbaum, Margalit
	Scepticism about human dignity: Sangiovanni, Rosen, McMahan
	Unawareness: the dignity of people with advanced Dementia
	Dignity and disability
	Non-human animals: the ethics of captivity
Philosophy Area B

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Assessment summary: One dissertation (10,000 words)