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Human Dignity – Constitutional Principle of Fundamental Human Rights
Human Dignity – Constitutional Principle of Fundamental Human Rights

Author(s): Lucian Pop
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: human dignity; legal meaning; social meaning; moral meaning; human rights; political correctness

Summary/Abstract: As a constitutional principle of the human rights, the human dignity is a supreme value, a norm and a right, thus that the reconfiguration of protection standards of fundamental human rights is made by cohesion of the legal, social and moral dimensions of human dignity. With this article, the author argues that legal meaning, social meaning and moral meaning of human dignity, are centerpiece of protection of freedom under law.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 161
  • Page Range: 46-52
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English
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