The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality Reynolds Joel Michael
The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality Reynolds Joel Michael A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and painMore than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let…
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The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality Reynolds Joel Michael
A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and painMore than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let there be a law that no deformed child shall live." This idea is alive and well today. argued that the United States can forcibly sterilize intellectually disabled women and philosopher Peter Singer argued for the right of parents to euthanize certain cognitively disabled infants. During the past century, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The Life Worth Living explores how and why such arguments persist by investigating the exclusion of and discrimination against disabled people across the history of Western moral philosophy.Joel Michael Reynolds argues that this history demonstrates a fundamental mischaracterization of the meaning of disability, thanks to the conflation of lived experiences of disability with those
A Life Worth Living
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