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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.
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