ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors examine what appears to be the proper and characteristic response they yield to dignity when they sense its presence in an object. It describes the set of more particular and concretes features which may be empirically ascertained to cluster round the phenomenon of Dignity: its conceptual aura or halo as it was. Whereas, when faced with the quality of Dignity as such we certainly also feel edified but not so much 'crushed', overwhelmed or even deeply excited as, rather, tranquillized and perhaps impressed with a sense of our own dignity rather than with a sense of our own smallness and triviality. Personality and Impersonality are equally integral to Dignity in the sense of 'personality' interpreted as an intangible and imperturbable inward core, depth and weight, and 'impersonality' in the sense of self-detachment, self-transcendence and objectivity.
