Human dignity names a two-tier political ecology: one moral-political community whose members bear a special status of inviolability, and another larger community where violence and degradation are routine. Because ecological relations are never uni-directional, the routinized violence that “belongs” in interactions with nonhuman animals returns, normalizing violence across gendered, racialized, and politicized lines of human difference. An account of dignity that begins from creaturely vulnerability rather than anthropological exceptionalism not only better expresses key theological insights of the Christian tradition, it also resists the repressed and disavowed violence generated by prevalent accounts of dignity.

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尊严的政治生态：人类尊严与动物性的不可避免的回归

人类尊严命名了一个两层政治生态：一个是道德政治共同体，其成员具有不可侵犯的特殊地位，另一个是暴力和堕落是家常便饭的更大的共同体。因为生态关系从来都不是单向的，在与非人类动物的互动中“属于”的常规暴力回归，使跨越性别、种族和政治化人类差异的暴力正常化。从受造物的脆弱性而非人类学例外论开始的尊严描述不仅更好地表达了基督教传统的关键神学见解，而且还抵制了普遍的尊严描述所产生的压抑和否认的暴力。