Interrogating the Morality of Human Rights

• Main Author: Perry, Michael (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cheltenham, UK Edward Elgar Publishing 2023
• Series: Elgar Studies in Human Rights
• Subjects: LNDC; Human rights; moral rights; equal protection; right of privacy; legal theory; moral freedom
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...