Citation

Koehn D, Leung A. Bus. Soc. Rev. 2008; 113(4): 477-504.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-8594.2008.00329.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Dignity is an important concept in ethics. Human rights organizations justify rights by appealing to human dignity. Prominent politicians have cited the need to protect human dignity and urged the founding of international institutions. The concept of human dignity is often used to evaluate and critique the ethics of select practices. In addition, the idea of dignity is used as a universal principle to ground universalist business ethics.