“Dignity” is among 9-80 considerations, all of which are highly solvable.
That’s 7-80 dependinghow you list/categorise/boundary them …
… and Tom I’m sorry if this response appears to complicate what would otherwise be a simple pleasure-dignity duo!
Economist Manfred Max-Neef has 9 which don’t translate too well from Spanish but here they are: subsistence, protection, affection, understanding, participation, recreation, creation, identity and freedom. In this scheme/categorisation, dignity could be part of identity, protection and freedom.
Psychologist Marshall Rosenberg has useful categories described well here, and dignity would probably be a part of autonomy, and also respect/self-respect in his “connection” category.
A key distinction is between these values/needs/qualities and the strategies used to satisfy them, with travelling and money being obvious examples of a strategies that can be used to meet some (but not all) needs/values. Money is not essential to meeting any of them i.e. the needs/values/qualities and are universal, the strategies can vary according to circumstance and resources.
In the health care and therapy world, the same broad understanding of needs/values is held by Human Givens therapy.
This broader understanding of needs/values also helps explain why everyone doesn’t want to live in Denmark, or be rich, and why people do low paid and “difficult” jobs like California Conservation Corps or being a marine or a circus performer. It also helps explain why the same behaviour or item or circumstance can be very pleasing to one person and anathema to others, and also how the same thing can provoke different responses in the same person at different times.
Someone asked about measurement. Fortunately Rosenberg’s needs in practice and communication produce, when met/satisfied, observable reactions, and self rating is often viable. Work has also been done measuring needs satisfaction in the categories used by Maslow in the hierarchy of needs.
Thanks for raising this Tom.
“Dignity” is among 9-80 considerations, all of which are highly solvable.
A key distinction is between these values/needs/qualities and the strategies used to satisfy them, with travelling and money being obvious examples of a strategies that can be used to meet some (but not all) needs/values. Money is not essential to meeting any of them i.e. the needs/values/qualities and are universal, the strategies can vary according to circumstance and resources.
In the health care and therapy world, the same broad understanding of needs/values is held by Human Givens therapy.
This broader understanding of needs/values also helps explain why everyone doesn’t want to live in Denmark, or be rich, and why people do low paid and “difficult” jobs like California Conservation Corps or being a marine or a circus performer. It also helps explain why the same behaviour or item or circumstance can be very pleasing to one person and anathema to others, and also how the same thing can provoke different responses in the same person at different times.
Someone asked about measurement. Fortunately Rosenberg’s needs in practice and communication produce, when met/satisfied, observable reactions, and self rating is often viable. Work has also been done measuring needs satisfaction in the categories used by Maslow in the hierarchy of needs.