Die Funktion der Menschenwürde im Verfassungsstaat

The present legal debate on human dignity focuses mainly on the question of the violability or the inviolability of human dignity in the sense of its status as a concept which can be made subject to deliberation or which defies deliberation. However, the discussion is often narrowed down to a debate on the possible origin of the concept of dignity. In opposition to this approach, Karl-Heinz Ladeur and Ino Augsberg look into what possible rational function the subject of inviolability could be given within the legal system. Against the backdrop of this functional analysis, the authors look at the consequences of this for the relevance of the concept of human dignity in relation to current problem areas such as human genetics, neuroscience and the changes in the media scene.