henceforth i whimper no more

• Dignity and Enhancement1

Does human enhancement threaten our dignity as some prominent commentators have asserted? Or could our dignity perhaps be technologically enhanced? After disentangling several different concepts of dignity, this essay focuses on the idea of dignity as a quality, a kind of excellence admitting of degrees and applicable to entities both within and without the human realm. I argue that dignity in this sense interacts with enhancement in complex ways which bring to light some fundamental issues in value theory, and that the effects of any given enhancement must be evaluated in its appropriate empirical context. Yet it is possible that through enhancement we could become better able to appreciate and secure many forms of dignity that are overlooked or missing under current conditions. I also...

... is not a quantitative notion; we cannot have more or less of it. The ground of the dignity of person... of her thinking will enable her henceforth better to resist manipulative advertisements and t... bang, and not a pathetic and god-forsaken whimper, can tum dying into the culmination of one's exist...

• Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice
• Vol. 1 Nbr. 2, July 2009

• From the International Competitive Carrier to the WTO: A Survey of the FCC's International Telecommunications Policy Initiatives 1985-1998.

...The more captive customers an incumbent may have, the more ... Commission also stated that it would henceforth apply the ECO test to a route whenever a carrier o... Telecommunications: Big Bang or Little Whimper?, 21 TELECOMM. POL'Y 799, 811 (1997) (While the Fe...

• Federal Communications Law Journal
• Vol. 51 Nbr. 1, December 1998

• God Is Love

Cardullo comments on the cinematography and screenplay of several motion pictures, including Sundays and Cybele directed by Serge Bourguignon and La Strada directed by Federico Fellini.

...Nowadays, as the Hollywood "product" more and more crowds out American independents as well ... art of the real, where advances would henceforth be tied less to the originality of the means of ex... pity and reduced humanly to a little whimper, like a mouse deprived of food: "The Fool is sick,...

• Hudson Review, The
• Vol. 57 Nbr. 1, April 2004

• The hyphenated identity and the question of belonging: a study of Samia Serageldin's The Cairo House.

... assume various identities, those "who have more than one skin, .. where the secret act of metamorp... been said, is your hostage to fortune: henceforth your choices are never free. (72) Consequently, sh... were marked not with a bang, but with a whimper. But this time, at least, she had not merely float...

• Studies in the Humanities
• Vol. 30 Nbr. 1-2, June 2003