Interrogating the morality of human rights /
"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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts :
Edward Elgar Publishing,
[2023]
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| Series: | Elgar studies in human rights.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Interrogating the morality of human rights : introductory overview
- Part I: The morality of human rights
- Preliminary questions
- The most fundamental question : what justification, if any?
- Part II: Two fundamental human rights : moral equality and moral freedom
- The human right to moral equality and the constitutional right to equal protection
- 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
- Capital punishment as a contested human rights issue
- Criminalizing abortion as a contested human rights issue
- Excluding same-sex couples from civil marriage as a contested human rights issue
- Who decides?
- Part IV: Antipoverty rights, and vulnerability theory
- Poverty as a human rights issue
- 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: The International Bill of Human Rights
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (excerpts)
- International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (excerpts).