The Institute for Church Life of the University of Notre Dame recently hosted a lecture and conference on human dignity: “The End of Human Dignity? Recovering the Intellectual Appeal of Human Dignity for the Theological and Philosophical Imagination.” The event featured Cardinal Onaiyekan, Cyril O’Regan, Leon Kass, Gustavo Gutiérrez, and David Walsh, and numerous other prominent philosophers and theologians. Here are some of the highlights from those live-tweeting:
.@JohnCavadini We need a vision of human dignity attentive to vulnerability. #HumanDignity2016
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 3, 2016
Slavery continues to threaten humanity, treating people as objects of consumption. #HumanDignity2016 #CardinalOnaiyekan
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 3, 2016
It is blasphemy to kill in the name of God #HumanDignity2016 #CardinalOnaiyekan #JPII
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 3, 2016
Putting “human rights” and “God’s rights” in opposition is blasphemous. #HumanDignity2016 #CardinalOnaiyekan
— Lenny DeLorenzo (@leodelo2) April 3, 2016
“Weapons of Mass Destruction” are now “Weapons of Global Annihilation”. #HumanDignity2016 #CardinalOnaiyekan
— Lenny DeLorenzo (@leodelo2) April 3, 2016
Those who deny human dignity must explain how the world will achieve peace and justice without it. #HumanDignity2016 #CardinalOnaiyekan
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 4, 2016
The law of God is the language of love and is there for the freedom of human beings. #HumanDignity2016
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 4, 2016
Each human being is unrepeatable. #HumanDignity2016 #GilMeilaender
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 4, 2016
Dignity must not only consider what traits we have but who we are. #HumanDignity2016 #GilMeilaender
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 4, 2016
I love therefore I am #HumanDignity2016 #MargiePfeil #EmmanuelMounier
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 4, 2016
The Christian is a go-giver, not a go-getter. #HumanDignity2016 #MargiePfeil #PeterMaurin
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 4, 2016
My human dignity is bound up with the dignity of my neighbor. #HumanDignity2016 #MargiePfeil
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 4, 2016
Humanism has devolved into a anti-humanism, embracing the will power and the death of God. #HumanDignity2016 #AnnAstell
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 4, 2016
“Questions of human dignity are too important to be left to lawyers, politicians, and the media” #HumanDignity2016 #DavidWalsh
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 4, 2016
“Our dignity does not turn on any display of dignity.” #HumanDignity2016 #DavidWalsh
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 4, 2016
Human dignity is not one point in the Gospel, it is at the center. #HumanDignity2016 #GustavoGuiterrez
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 4, 2016
Poverty is not a destiny it is an injustice. #HumanDignity2016 #GustavoGuiterrez
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 4, 2016
In the last analysis, poverty means an early and unjust death. #HumanDignity2016 #GustavoGutierrez
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 4, 2016
The preferential option for the poor is the praxis of human dignity. The phrase is new, the reality is biblical. #HumanDignity2016
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 5, 2016
Love of God and love of neighbor are internally unified. #HumanDignity2016 #GustavoGutierrez
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 5, 2016
Dignity is the beginning and end of international development. #HumanDignity2016 #PaoloCarozza
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 5, 2016
Dignity is relational and communal; it means a willingness of to take on another person’s freedom #HumanDignity2016 pic.twitter.com/t7MzbDYu1Q
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 5, 2016
.@JohnCavadini In the gospels, the poor encounter the revelation that their lives have meaning and value. #HumanDignity2016
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 5, 2016
.@JohnCavadini The preferential option for the poor is the preferential option for human dignity. #HumanDignity2016
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 5, 2016
.@JohnCavadini Gratidude and wonder are not merely sentimental, but embed us in practices that affirm life. #HumanDignity2016
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 5, 2016
.@JohnCavadini: we practice human dignity by concretely valuing persons over efficiency. #HumanDignity2016
— Timothy O’Malley (@timothypomalley) April 5, 2016
There is a simple and deep dignity to ordinary human activity and relations. #HumanDignity2016 #LeonKass
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 5, 2016
A thick and substantive view of the self is lacking from modern democracy. #HumanDignity2016 #CyrilORegan
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 5, 2016
Cyril O’Regan: To see in caritas is to see the who buried in the attributes. #HumanDignity2016
— Jessica Keating (@jessfkeating) April 5, 2016
Cyril O’Regan: Some of the best elements of rights are in fact extensions of the best elements of virtue. #HumanDignity2016
— Timothy O’Malley (@timothypomalley) April 6, 2016
At #HumanDignity2016, Cyril ends with literature as a way of showing us how a renewal of imagination is necessary to see persons in love
— Timothy O’Malley (@timothypomalley) April 5, 2016
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