The Dignity of the Individual and of Peoples: The Contribution of Mesopotamia and of Syriac Heritage Joseph Yacoub
SOURCE: Diogenes (International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies) 54 no3 19-37 2007 ‘Respect engenders favour.’ Babylonian precept ‘Do not gather riches, for fear that your heart be perverted. … To one who is just, succour must be brought; All those who stand opposed will go to their ruin.’ The Wisdom of Ahikar the Assyrian Dignity — a fundamental notion The notion of dignity is primordial for upon it rests the basis of the various categories of human rights.(FN1) It stands as an intrinsic, universal, untouchable and inalienable value, whatever...
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