Michael J. Perry (Atlanta Emory University)

A Global Political Morality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is for all those who are interested in the morality of human rights, the first truly global political morality in human history; in the relationship of the morality of human rights to democracy; and in the role of courts - especially the US Supreme Court - in protecting human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 302g
• ISBN-13: 9781316611005
• ISBN-10: 1316611000
• Artikelnr.: 47721302

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Perry has held a Robert W. Woodruff University Chair at Emory University, Atlanta since 2003, where he teaches in the School of Law. Perry is also a Senior Fellow at Emory University's Center for the Study of Law and Religion and a co-editor of the Journal of Law and Religion. He is the author of twelve books and over eighty-five articles, essays and book chapters.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Morality of Human Rights: 1. What are 'human
rights'? Against the 'orthodox' view; 2. What reason(s) do we have, if any,
to take human rights seriously? Beyond 'human dignity'; Part II. From the
Morality of Human Rights to Democracy and to Certain Limitations on
Democracy: 3. The three pillars of democracy: the human rights to
democratic governance, intellectual freedom, and moral equality; 4.
Democracy limited: the human right to religious and moral freedom; Part
III. Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism: 5. A theory of
judicial review; 6. The theory illustrated: five constitutional
controversies, five judicial opinions; 7. Poverty as a human rights issue:
constitutionalism-related reflections; Concluding note: human rights
foundationalism.