Cover
Front Matter
Half title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
Intro-PartI & II
Introduction
Whither Dignity?
The Conceptual Foundations of Human Dignity
Grounding Human Dignity
Competing Concepts of Human Dignity
Origin of the Present Volumes
Acknowledgements
References
Part I Grounding Human Dignity
Chapter One Human Dignity in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 'Old' or 'New'?
Human Dignity, Rights and Liberty in the Eighteenth Century
Human Dignity in the Universal Declaration: Inherent and Achieved

Inherent Dignity
Achieved Dignity
References
Chapter Two How do we Justify Human Rights and Dignity?
Introduction
The History of Human Rights
Greek and Roman Versions of Natural Rights and Christianity
Human Rights and Dignity
a Product of the Enlightenment?
Do Human Rights and Conceptions of Human Dignity Rely on Religious Belief and Truth?
The Golden Rule
Imago Dei, the Image of God
Imitatio Dei, the Imitation of God
Twenty-First Century Threats to the Human Rights Project
How Can We Promote Human Rights and Dignity in the Twenty-First Century?

Religious Ideas Which Have Survived Translation into Secular Terms
A Challenge and a Conclusion
References
Chapter Three May Critics of 'Inherent Dignity' be Answered? Rejoinders from Christian Anthropology
Preliminary Clarifications
Critiquing Inherent Human Dignity: A Typology
The Functional Critique
The Non-Consensus Critique
The Reductionist Critique
The Postmodern Critique
The Theological or Religious Critique
Convergences
Karl Barth on Honour
The Promise of Barth's Notion of Honour to Human Dignity/Rights Discourse
References

Chapter Four Three Sources of Human Dignity
1. Introduction
2. Three Sources of Human Worth
3. Speciesism?
4. Some Theistic Alternatives
5. Conclusion
References
Chapter Five Atheism and Theism: A Comparison of Metaphysical Foundations for Human Dignity
Introduction
1. The Not-So-Jolly Implications of a Godless Universe
2. Human Dignity, Human Rights and the Image of God
Human Dignity and Human Rights
Naturalism, Brute Facts and Human Value
Wielenberg and the Imago Dei
3. Comparing Metaphysics: Are Theism's and Naturalism's Facts Equally Brute?

God and the Inference to the Best Explanation
Theism and Wielenberg's Host of Brute Facts
Brute fact 1: Persons emerged from an impersonal universe
Brute fact 2: A universe, which began a finite time ago, is necessary for valuable human beings
Brute fact 3: The life-permitting conditions of the universe's delicately balanced fine-tuning are necessary for valuable human beings
Brute fact 4: Valuable human beings
along with all other living things
emerged from non-living matter