The Value of Human Dignity

Chinedu Paul Ezenwa

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Chinedu Paul Ezenwa, The Value of Human Dignity (2020), Logos Verlag, Berlin, ISBN: 9783832586270

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Where today is a specific, original and stable basis for a Political order to be found? What does the human dignity mean in the midst of the general crises of values? In the face of the ambivalent achievements of modernity and enlightenment, do the values of Christianity which until now have been regarded as the objective norm fail in its contact with the primal culture and the culture of the African communities? Where in this classes are the weakening and strengthening and specific challenges of this African People? This field of conflict must not only be described, but above all to ask about new opportunities to get out of the crisis of the value of human dignity in the Igbo society of Southeastern Nigeria. Ezenwas work seeks and aids understanding, using the facility of examining the subject of dignity in Igbo culture to throw light that casts much farther than the subject matter, begging for further inquiry into other complementary aspects of the culture. In other to achieve this, interdisciplinary research was needed.

Table of content

  • BEGINN
  • Abbreviations
  • Table of Content
  • Acknowledgement by Dr. Chinedu Paul Ezenwa
  • Forward by Prof. DDr. Josef Waleszczuk
  • General Introduction:
  • 0.1 Research Objective
  • 0.2 The Challenges to be resolved
  • 0.3 Scope and Methodology
  • Introduction
  • 1.0 The Term Igbo
  • 1.1 Crisis of Value its Meaning in the Work
  • 1.2 Notion “Value†
  • 1.3 The Notion Dignity
  • 1.4 Culture and Human Dignity
  • 1.5 The Concept Human Person
  • 1.6 The Igbo Ontology of the Human Person
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • 2.1 The Igbo Ethical World Views
  • 2.2 Sense of the Sacred
  • 2.3 Sense of Communalism
  • 2.4 Respect for Elders
  • 2.5 Emulation and Adaptability
  • 2.6 Autonomy of the Human Person
  • 2.7 Igbo Personal Names as a Proof of the Value and Dignity of Human Person
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • 3.1 The Igbo Socio-Political Structure
  • 3.2 The Family
  • 3.3 The Title Holders
  • 3.4 The Laws of the Land (Iwu Obodo)
  • 3.5 The King (Eze)
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • 4.1 The Pre-colonial Igbo and Culture Contact
  • 4.2 The Question of Value and Dignity of Women in Igbo Traditional Society
  • 4.3 The Trans-Atlantic slave Trade and the Inhuman Effect on the Igbo
  • 4.4 The So Called Era of Civilization and its Effects
  • 4.5 Nigeria Pluralism and the Effect on the Igbo
  • 4.6 Urbanization, Modernization and Globalization
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • 5.1 United Nations Declaration on Human Dignity
  • 5.2 African Charter on Human Dignity
  • 5.3 Nigerian efforts on the Value of Human Dignity
  • 5.4 Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Contribution towards Human Dignity In Nigeria
  • 5.5 Igbo Efforts towards Human Dignity
  • 5.6 Human Duty a Prerequisite for Human Dignity
  • 5.7 The Church and Right to Life
  • 5.8 The Role of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • 6.1 Observation and Findings
  • Recommendations
  • 6.2 A Re-awakening of some Igbo Socio-cultural Values
  • 6.3 General Evaluation and Conclusion
  • General Bibliography

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