Disability and the Good Human Life
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Disability and the Good Human Life

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Disability and the Good Human Life

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This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up a recent debate in philosophy, sociology, and disability studies on whether disability is intrinsically a harm that lowers a person's quality of life. While this is a new question in disability scholarship, it also touches on one of the oldest philosophical questions: what is the good human life? Historically, philosophers have not been interested in the topic of disability, and when they are it is usually only in relation to questions such as euthanasia, abortion, or the moral status of disabled people. Consequently disability has been either ignored by moral and political philosophers or simply equated with a bad human life, a life not worth living. This collection takes up the challenge that disability poses to basic questions of political philosophy and bioethics, among others, by focusing on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.

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Yes, you can access Disability and the Good Human Life by Jerome E. Bickenbach,Franziska Felder,Barbara Schmitz in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Política y relaciones internacionales & Derechos humanos. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781107596313
Topic
Política y relaciones internacionales
Subtopic
Derechos humanos

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Disability and the Good Human Life
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Rethinking the Good Human Life in Light of Disability
  9. 1 Moral Worth and Severe Intellectual Disability – A Hybrid View
  10. 2 “Something Else”? – Cognitive Disability and the Human Form of Life
  11. 3 Disability (Not) as a Harmful Condition: The Received View Challenged
  12. 4 Nasty, Brutish, and Short? On the Predicament of Disability and Embodiment
  13. 5 Recognizing Disability
  14. 6 Understanding the Relationship between Disability and Well-Being
  15. 7 Disability and the Well-Being Agenda
  16. 8 Disability and Quality of Life: An Aristotelian Discussion
  17. 9 Living a Good Life ... in Adult-Sized Diapers
  18. 10 Ill, but Well: A Phenomenology of Well-Being in Chronic Illness
  19. 11 Natural Diversity and Justice for People with Disabilities
  20. 12 Inclusion and the Good Human Life
  21. Index