Este „demnitatea umană” o expresie pleonastică?
Is 'Human Dignity' a Pleonastic Phrase?

Summary/Abstract: In this study we are approaching the concept of dignity underlining the value of the Kantian definition for human dignity, as well as the human value sheltered in the concept of human dignity. Although this concept remains nevertheless elusive and opaque, or even mercurial, as some consider it, we can attempt a conceptual analysis of the formula. Is dignity with necessity human? Commenting on the insights of Lucian Blaga, Mircea Eliade, Leon Kass, Martha Nussbaum, and others, we are mapping several conceptual complexities that suggest to describe the opaqueness of this concept in terms of difficulty in drawing a clear-cut analysis with denotative and lower interpretational qualities. Human uniqueness comes from human dignity and the order way around, in an eternal conceptual return. There are multiple views of human dignity, all held dear and all problematic in becoming factors that shape an improved socio-political reality via a functional and satisfactory public policy or a largely embraced vision built around a clear speculative notion. Nevertheless, the topic of dignity is the topic of the value of the human being, inclusively, the value of human life under all aspects, thus the topic coming closer to the theme of humanism and to the concerns approached by bioethics. All of these insights indicate the pleonastic character of the phrase 'human dignity'.

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