WHICH dignity, WHICH dignity?
A plea for documenting the diverse dimensions of dignity,
by Francisco Gomes de Matos, a peace linguist from Recife, Brazil
We talk about dignity but embedded therein are many dimensions. Let´s list some of them, alphabetically. Please join with me in this probing activity.
Dimensions of dignity:
Anthropological, artistic, …
Biological, …
Creative, critical, cultural, crosscultural, communicative, community, conversational, …
Democratic, design, documental, diplomatic, disciplinary, …
Ecological, economic, educational, environmental, …
Family, fictional, filmic, future-centered, …
Gender-based, geographic, geriatric, …
Harmonizing, historical, humanistic, humanizing, humanitarian, Human Rights-based, Humor-based, …
Informational, intellectual, interpersonal, international, …
Journalistic, judicial, juridical, …
Knowledge, …
Legal, lexical, linguistic, listening, literary, literacy-based, Life-supporting, Life-sustaining, Life-protecting, …
Marketing, medical, mental, military, musical, …
National, network, nursing, nonviolence, nonkilling, …
Occupational, organizational, …
Peace-focused, pedagogical, personal, physical, police, political, psychological, …
Questioning, …
Reading, religious, research, rhetorical, …
Scientific, semantic, signed (in the use of a sign language), social, spoken, sports, spiritual, survival, …
Technological, terminological, transdisciplinary, …
Universal, unifying, …
Verbal, viewing, visual, …
Writing, written, …
X……………..
Youth
Zoological, …
The above listing is open-ended, as is the core concept of DIGNITY. When you use the term, be sure to specify which dimension thereof you have in mind.
Let me end with a plea for research of the diverse dimensions of dignity.
Received June 24, 2010
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