Acknowledgments ............................................... vii
1 Dignity in Eclipse ........................................... 1
2 The Nature of Dignity: A Preliminary Inquiry ................ 43
3 Implications of Human Finitude .............................. 83
4 Tragedy and Sacrifice ...................................... 135
5 Dignity and the Struggle for Survival: Evolutionary
Biology .................................................... 177
6 Dignity and the Struggle for Survival: Political
Economics .................................................. 221
7 Why Embrace the Regulative Ideals? ......................... 265
Bibliography .................................................. 305
Index ......................................................... 309
About the Author .............................................. 315
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