This is a fair point. I’ve treated dignity as equivalent to a cause area here, but that’s not really what it is. I think in part I’m borrowing INT because I’m not sure how philosophers make arguments over fundamental values—the empiricist in me wants to root it in some sort of popularity/preferences survey. There’s definitely an unresolved tension in my thinking between regarding dignity as an end, and regarding it as a promising strategy for promoting welfare.
It’s something I’ll do some reading on, but if anyone has recommendations for reading on how philosophers arrive at understandings of fundamental values, I’d love to read them.
This is a fair point. I’ve treated dignity as equivalent to a cause area here, but that’s not really what it is. I think in part I’m borrowing INT because I’m not sure how philosophers make arguments over fundamental values—the empiricist in me wants to root it in some sort of popularity/preferences survey. There’s definitely an unresolved tension in my thinking between regarding dignity as an end, and regarding it as a promising strategy for promoting welfare.
It’s something I’ll do some reading on, but if anyone has recommendations for reading on how philosophers arrive at understandings of fundamental values, I’d love to read them.