PRO-LIFE BASICS: The Dignity of the Human Person

Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer considers the concept of dignity to be an impeccable thing for embellishing speech. A person who has a mouth full of dignity immediately seems more human. It is worse when we ask the person in question to explain to us what dignity is. Then it turns out how vague a concept it is. Perhaps it has no content, it only falsely deepens the speech.

PRO-LIFE BASICS: The Dignity of the Human Person

By Judie Brown In 2008 the Vatican issued Dignitas Personae, which explains that “dignity belongs equally to every single human being, irrespective of his parents’ desires.”1  This is not a new teaching but rather a restatement of the fundamental reason why the Fifth Commandment says “Thou shalt not kill.” Simple truth has become twisted, if not tossed away, during the past several decades as people have become more and more desensitized toward …