...respect for the human body—has already been eradicated. Humiliation then, is 'any sort of behaviour or condition that constitutes a sound reason for a...person to consider his or her self-respect injured'. Margalit is an Israeli who knows the history of ultimate humiliation through the holocaust and who...

...fascinating book The Decent Society (1996, 1, 9), we can define humiliation as "any sort of behavior that constitutes a sound reason for a person to consider his or her self-respect injured." Such humiliation, Margalit goes on to explain in a way that resembles our discussion of structural...

...rejection of a person from the human commonwealth and the loss of basic control. The former provides a sound reason for a person to consider his or her self-respect to be injured, and the latter is the effect of diminished self-respect. It is Margalit's task to show...

...dehumanization. The political philosopher Avishai Margalit defines humiliation as "any sort of behaviour or condition that constitutes a sound reason for a...person to consider his or her self-respect injured". In his book The Decent Society Margalit shows that humiliation and dehumanization matter not only because...

...Margalit discusses the foundations of human decency in terms of "humiliation;" that is, in terms ot any "sort of behavior or condition that constitutes...person to consider his or her self-respect injured." "Humiliation" is further defined as "a break in a person's ability to be selfsufficient in satisfying...

...Humiliation is the "rejection of a person from the human commonwealth and ... the loss of basic control."73 "Humiliation is any sort of behavior or condition...reason for a person to consider his or her self-respect injured."74 Thus humiliation, like other violations of human rights, targets the core of human worth...

...inquiry.44 Avishai Margalit is one of the few philosophers who has written about humiliation. He sees it as "any sort of behavior or condition that constitutes...reason for a person to consider his or her self-respect injured."46 He sees the decent society as one "whose institutions do not humiliate people."46 This...

...we define it in the same terms as Avishai Margalit defined humiliation, ie as 'any sort of behaviour or condition that constitutes a sound reason for a...person to consider his or her self-respect injured' (Margalit 1998: 9). Accordingly, the 'ability to appear in public without shame' can be interpreted...