03983nam 2200457 450 991072980120332120230704004422.09781035306275(electronic bk.)9781035306268(MiAaPQ)EBC7253949(Au-PeEL)EBL7253949(UtOrBLW)eep9781035306275(EXLCZ)992679206100004120230704d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierInterrogating the morality of human rights /Michael J. PerryFirst edition.Northampton :Edward Elgar Publishing,2023.1 online resource (172 pages)Elgar studies in human rightsIncludes index.Print version: Perry, Michael J. Interrogating the Morality of Human Rights Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited,c2023 9781035306268 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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"--Provided by publisher.Elgar studies in human rights.Human rightsMoral and ethical aspectsHuman rightsMoral and ethical aspects.323Perry Michael J.545562Edward Elgar Publishing,MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910729801203321Interrogating the Morality of Human Rights3392301UNINA