Dual Faces of Human Dignity: Secured Worth and Required Recognition

History informs us the varying use of the term
human dignity from a status of a rank, an inherent value to a
dignified way of living. Human dignity has intrinsic, attributed
and inflorescent variants, inheres in human individuals as
well as collectively in human species, plays positive and
negative roles of empowerment and constraint, functions as
principle as well as a rule and is a self-respect, self-esteem
and social recognition in acknowledgement of the secured,
inviolable, intrinsic worth. It prohibits self-degradation and
social degradation of individuals and humanity as a whole. 
It inheres not only in rational-moral capacities but includes 
all basic human needs. Humanity is dignity and every human
individual is a concrete, experiential face of the existential
dignity. Human dignity is neither vague nor useless, but the
supreme moral-legal watchdog principle of complementarity
for bioethics, biolaw and biopolitics to protect humans
against misuses under the mask of freedom of research in 
biosciences and biotechnologies.