Love, Individuality and Dignity

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre

Presenters: Professor Raimond Gaita

Professor Raimond Gaita argues that love plays both a constitutive and revelatory role in our understanding of the idea that human beings are, as we sometimes say, unique and irreplaceable. In addition, he takes love to play an important role in explaining what we are getting at when we talk about the Dignity – or the inalienable Dignity – of humanity or of individual persons. He stresses that there are different forms of love, all of them forms of the ethical, but not thereby of morality, and that some forms of love conflict with morality – or at least with non-moralistic conceptions of it.

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