Apart from being a pervasive concept of present-day law, human dignity is a phenomenon regularly experienced by people in their lives. Yet before any protection for it can be advanced, it is imperative that an explanation of how human dignity is at all possible be established, including a description of its constitutive figures. Paul Ricoeur made a significant contribution to the lacking phenomenology of human dignity. Despite only rarely using the term dignity directly, he identified and described its three constitutive and interdependent figures—self-esteem, self-respect, and recognition—and embedded them amongst such notions as self, identity, narrative, passivity, bodiliness, fragility, morality, and law. He activated the phenomenological, existentialist, and hermeneutic legacies in understanding human dignity and succeeded in modifying certain sharp-edged structures that have periodically been associated with the notion of human dignity. In this paper I argue that human dignity is a high-ranking topic in Ricoeur’s writings, identify and synthesize the phenomenology of human dignity scattered throughout his works, and reveal the profound existential aspects he attributed to it. Finally, I discuss and evaluate his phenomenological-existentialistic account of human dignity, particularly taking into consideration the contemporary use of human dignity in law and its associated discourses.

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作为存在主义的人类尊严？论保罗·利科的人类尊严现象学

除了是当今法律的普遍概念之外，人的尊严还是人们在生活中经常经历的一种现象。然而，在对其进行任何保护之前，必须先解释人类尊严是如何可能的，包括对其构成要素的描述。保罗·利科对缺乏人类尊严的现象学做出了重大贡献。尽管很少直接使用尊严这个词，但他确定并描述了它的三个构成性和相互依赖的形象——自尊、自尊和认可——并将它们嵌入到诸如自我、身份、叙事、被动、身体、脆弱、道德，法律。他激活了现象学的、存在主义的、和解释学遗产，并成功地修改了某些尖锐的结构，这些结构周期性地与人类尊严的概念相关联。在本文中，我认为人类尊严是利科著作中的一个重要主题，识别并综合散布在他作品中的人类尊严现象学，并揭示他归因于它的深刻存在方面。最后，我讨论并评估了他对人类尊严的现象学-存在主义的解释，特别是考虑到人类尊严在法律及其相关话语中的当代应用。识别并综合散布在他作品中的人类尊严现象学，并揭示他归因于它的深刻存在方面。最后，我讨论并评估了他对人类尊严的现象学-存在主义的解释，特别是考虑到人类尊严在法律及其相关话语中的当代应用。识别并综合散布在他作品中的人类尊严现象学，并揭示他归因于它的深刻存在方面。最后，我讨论并评估了他对人类尊严的现象学-存在主义的解释，特别是考虑到人类尊严在法律及其相关话语中的当代应用。