Interrogating the morality of human rights / / Michael J. Perry.

• Superior document: Elgar studies in human rights
• VerfasserIn: Perry, Michael J.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Edward Elgar Publishing,
• Place / Publishing House: Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Elgar studies in human rights.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (172 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

"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 puni...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the author
• 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 TWO 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
• Appendix
• Index.