Human Dignity

The Virtue of Repugnance Sohrab Ahmari, Wall Street Journal. "As pain is to the body so repugnance is to the soul," says bioethicist Leon Kass.  "Repugnance is some kind of wake-up call that there is something untoward going on and attention must be paid."

The Dignity of the Individual Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Book of Doctrines and Opinions. In which the Rov rejects the death penalty for the Rosenbergs, says that slander in political elections is forbidden, and admits personal tension between his ideal of dignity and his impatience with the less educated. (1959; lecture notes)