NORMATIVE SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

"2 As Michael Perry noted in a recent book, "[E]ven among countries that do not take human rights seriously, an ever-diminishing number is willing to be seen as rejecting the political morality of human rights. In his 2017 book, A Global Political Morality: Human Rights, Democracy, and Con...

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Published inEmory law journal Vol. 71; no. 7; pp. 1583 - 1610
Main Author Kay, Richard S
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Atlanta Emory University, School of Law 01.01.2022
Subjects
Civil service
Constitutionalism
Human rights
International law
Legitimacy
Morality
Philosophers
Philosophy
Political activism
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Summary:"2 As Michael Perry noted in a recent book, "[E]ven among countries that do not take human rights seriously, an ever-diminishing number is willing to be seen as rejecting the political morality of human rights. In his 2017 book, A Global Political Morality: Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism, Perry writes, "I want to emphasize, here at the outset, that this book is about the political morality of human rights; it is not about the international law of human rights. James Griffin, for example, suggests that it is possible to identify "existence conditions . . . [and] supply grounds for deciding [their] content . . . [and] resolve conflicts of human rights" in the senses "used today by most philosophers, political theorists, international lawyers, jurisprudents, civil servants, politicians, and human rights activists. [...]Richard Bilder aptly noted that "[t]o assert that a particular social claim is a human right is to vest it emotionally and morally with an especially high order of legitimacy.
ISSN:0094-4076
2163-324X