Moral Equality?

Authors

Michael J. Perry

Abstract

The particular version of the foregoing question I address in the following pages is this: What nontheistic reason or reasons do we have, if any, to accept the morality of human rights, a core constituent of which is the right to moral equality: the right of every human being to be treated as the moral equal of every other human being in this sense: as equally entitled with every other human being to be treated—as no less worthy than any other human being of being treated—in what Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights calls “a spirit of brotherhood.” By “the morality of human rights” (as I call it), I mean the particular morality embodied in the Universal Declaration.

Volume

23

Issue

2

Start Page

383

Faculty Editor

Larry Alexander & Steven D. Smith

Recommended Citation

Perry, Michael J. (2022) "Moral Equality?," The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues: Vol. 23: Iss. 2, Article 9.
Available at: https://digital.sandiego.edu/jcli/vol23/iss2/9