Michael J Perry

A Global Political Morality

Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An elaboration and defence of the first truly global political morality in human history: the morality of human rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781107158511
• ISBN-10: 1107158516
• Artikelnr.: 48062444

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.