Interrogating the Morality of Human Rights

Michael J. Perry

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Abstract: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. 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.

Keywords: Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
ISBN: 9781035306268
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Preliminary questions , pp 8-18

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Ch 2 The most fundamental question: What justification, if any? , pp 19-33

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Ch 3 The human right to moral equality and the constitutional right to equal protection , pp 35-45

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Ch 4 The human right to moral freedom and the constitutional right of privacy , pp 46-63

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Ch 5 Capital punishment as a contested human rights issue , pp 65-74

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Ch 6 Criminalizing abortion as a contested human rights issue , pp 75-84

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Ch 7 Excluding same-sex couples from civil marriage as a contested human rights issue , pp 85-96

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Ch 8 Who decides? , pp 97-100

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Ch 9 Poverty as a human rights issue , pp 102-113

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Ch 10 Vulnerability theory and the morality of human rights: Complementary, not competitive , pp 114-123

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