Instructions: Please answer the following questions. Note that your answer key need only be up to 2 pages single-spaced in 12-point or smaller font with 1-inch margins all around, not including the header, cover page, references, etc. It also goes without saying that in answering each question you need to explain your answers.

1. Based on the Gewirth (1992) and Bagaric and Allen (2006) readings, explain "dignity."

2. In economics, utility is often synonymous with happiness or satisfaction. It is an abstract measure of how, for example, consumption of goods services contributes to the satisfaction of an individual. Conversely, it can also provide insight into dissatisfaction or disutility from, say, the consumption of air or water pollution.

a. How are utility and dignity related?

b. Which concept (if any) is better-suited to capture changes in individual welfare stemming from fulfilling or violating some human right?

c. Is either one of them a particularly useful (or otherwise) tool or way to describe standards of living?

3. Do you agree with Bagaric and Allen (2006), that dignity is a vacuous concept?

4. Is utility a vacuous concept?

5. could the concepts work together to form a foundation/basis of human rights?