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The Special Value of Human Beings

It is a key Kantian idea that human beings have a special kind of value, different from everything else, called “dignity.” Arguably, this idea is absent in ancient ethics. What does it mean to think that human beings have a special “dignity value”? Could anything like this be fitted into our reading of ancient ethics? Professor Katja Vogt (Columbia) will lead a discussion.

This event is part of our series on Living the Core.