The Dignity of Life and the Expansion of Legal Rights
Dignity was initially a concept representing hierarchy and did not correspond to rights,but later paradoxi-cally extended to all people.Taking the traditional/modern paradigm of dignity as a reference point,Kant's theory of dignity,which dominates the legal institutions and value systems,lacks explanatory power.It is nec-essary to develop Kant's theory of dignity under the modern paradigm to respond to the inherent challenges of biotechnology to dignity.The theory of dignity needs to be further generalized,expanding the scope of dignity to encompass"human life"beyond time.Therefore,the focus on human dignity should shift from"human be-ing"constrained by time to"human life",define the connotation of"the dignity of human life",and use it as a basis to defend the normative significance of various forms of human life in legal philosophy,and thus lay a theoretical foundation for granting them rights.
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