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Sarah Buss and L. Nandi Theunissen (eds.), Rethinking the Value of Humanity, Oxford University Press, 2023, 447pp., $130.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780197539361.
Reviewed by Douglas MacLean, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
This substantial volume consists of sixteen original essays that cover a broad scope within analytic moral philosophy together with a lengthy introduction by Sarah Buss that attempts to unify the essays. Buss correctly says that the subject is important beyond philosophy. Making sense of the value of humanity may help us understand our common concerns about a world in which people and groups often treat each other in ways that shock one’s conscience. The idea of our humanity, and how it is connected to the nature and implications of basic human rights should be of universal interest and concern.
The essays in this book, I believe, are not easily accessible to readers without some philosophical background and some awareness of the history of Western moral…
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