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Interrogating the Morality of Human Rights

Interrogating the Morality of Human Rights

Author: Michael J. Perry
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035306268
Published In: May 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This forward-thinking book illustrates the complexities of the morality of human rights. Emphasising the role of human rights as the only true global political morality to arise since the Second World War, chapters explore its role as applied to often controversial issues, such as capital punishment, the exclusion of same-sex couples from civil marriage and criminal abortion bans.

Clarifying and cross-examining the morality of human rights, Michael J. Perry discusses their connection to moral equality and moral freedom, as well as exploring the significance of anti-poverty human rights. This illuminating book concludes with an explanation as to why the morality of human rights is acutely relevant to challenges faced by humanity in the modern era. In particular, the challenges of growing economic inequality and climate change are emphasised as having profound relevance to the morality of human rights.

Interrogating the Morality of Human Rights will be of great benefit to both undergraduate and graduate students who are contemplating the idea of human rights and their morality within their studies. Professors and academics with cause to study and research human rights would also find it to be of interest, particularly those in the field of legal scholarship.

Introduction: Interrogating the morality of human rights - Introductory overview

PART I: THE MORALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS

1. Preliminary questions 2. The most fundamental question: What justification, if any?

PART II: FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS: MORAL EQUALITY AND MORAL FREEDOM

3. The human right to moral equality and the constitutional right to equal protection 4. The human right to moral freedom and the constitutional right of privacy

PART III: THREE HUMAN-RIGHTS-BASED CONTROVERSIES: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, ABORTION, AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

5. Capital punishment as a contested human rights issue 6. Criminalizing abortion as a contested human rights issue 7. Excluding same-sex couples from civil marriage as a contested human rights issue 8. Who decides?

PART IV: ANTIPOVERTY RIGHTS-AND VULNERABILITY THEORY

9. Poverty as a human rights issue 10. Vulnerability theory and the morality of human rights: Complementary, not competitive Conclusion: Human rights inflation? Extreme economic inequality and global warming as human rights issues

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