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“Dignity” goes back to the Latin word “dignitas.” Dignitas stems from the Indo-Germanic root “dek,” which means to accept something, to adopt something, to prefer something.
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Tiedemann, P. (2020). The Human Dignity Principle I. In: Philosophical Foundation of Human Rights. Springer Textbooks in Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42262-2_5
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