"Humanity itself is a dignity; for a human being cannot be used merely as a means by any human being . . . but must always be used at the same time as an end. It is just in this that his dignity (personality) consists, by which he raises himself above all other beings in the world that are not human beings and yet can be used, and so over all things."[2]
Environment: "Now that mankind is in the process of completing the colonization of the planet, learning to manage it intelligently is an urgent imperative. Man must accept responsibility for the stewardship of the earth. The word stewardship implies, of course, management for human life not only now, but also for future generations."[3]
Nonhuman Animal Rights: "People" for the Ethical "Treatment" of "Animals"
dominion over the Earth
[2] Roger Brownsword, Bioethics Today, Bioethics Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research and the "Dignitarian
[3] See background report commissioned for the Stockholm Conference in 1972, by Rene Dubos and Barbara Ward, reprinted in
[4] Julian Simon, THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE, 2nd ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996). Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource 2 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996).
