The idea that dignity means being human is not of recent origin, and it is perhaps the great German philosopher, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) who has come up with the most appropriate philosophical explanation of the term “human dignity”. He asserted that some things are beyond value. Those things which are beyond all values have dignity. Kant identifies those things which are beyond all value as those things which are ends in themselves, as opposed to ordinary ends or to means. A thing is an end in itself if it has morality, that is, if it can make choices between right and wrong. The only something that has morality is the human being. Kant says: “Thus morality, and humanity as capable of it, is that which alone has dignity.