Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Guide for the Reader -- A Note on Methodology -- Part I. Foundations -- 1. Against Dignity -- Desiderata -- The Aristocratic Tradition -- The Christian Tradition -- The Kantian Tradition -- The Regress Reading -- The Address Reading -- The Distinction between Basic Moral Status and Equal Moral Status -- 2. Moral Equality, Respect, and Cruelty -- Treating as Inferior -- Cruelty -- Respect -- Consent -- Variation and Status -- Punishment -- Conclusion -- 3. When and Why Is Discrimination Wrong? -- The Concept of Discrimination -- Discrimination and Social Meanings -- Demeaning and Disrespecting -- A Fresh Start: The Expressive Harm Account -- Stigma and Dehumanization in Racial Discrimination -- Reverse Discrimination -- Infantilization, Objectification, and Instrumentalization in Sex Discrimination -- Infantilization -- Objectification and Instrumentalization -- Indirect Discrimination -- Part II. Human Rights -- 4. The Concept of Human Rights: The Broad View -- Desiderata -- Against Orthodox Views -- Against Political Views -- A Merely Verbal Disagreement -- The Broad View -- The Concept -- The Diversity That Stands between Concept and Conception -- Avoiding Merely Verbal Disagreement -- How Does the CSBV Help to Satisfy the Four Desiderata? -- The Subclass Desideratum -- The Fidelity Desideratum -- The Normativity and Determinacy Desiderata -- Conclusion -- 5. International Legal Human Rights and Equal Moral Status -- A Defense of the Grounding View -- The Obligation to Establish and Maintain an International Legal Human Rights System -- The Duty of Reciprocal Protection and International Legal Human Rights -- Looking Ahead -- 6. Fundamental Rights, Indivisibility, and Hierarchy among Human Rights -- Basic Rights -- Fundamental Rights