The dignity of a disabled person

Abstract

Dictionary definitions of “dignity” do not fully explain this concept. Rather, they raise doubts and questions: what about people who have such bodily damage that prevents efforts to raise dignity or gain it through their own actions. The full answer can be found on the basis of Christian personalism, which takes into consideration the philosophical achievements and the biblical-theological view of man. It points to the existence of personal dignity, that is, the absolute, universal, inherent, inalienable, inviolable and non-gradable value that all human beings have, which guarantees that being a human is entitled to dignity. To be human being is related to having dignity.Personal dignity is independent of the state of the human body. No damage touches the depths of humanity, the essential parts of its being. “There is no cripple, there is a man” (Maria Grzegorzewska).