Jonas-Sebastien Beaudry

Disabled Contract (eBook, ePUB)

Severe Intellectual Disability, Justice and Morality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Social contract theories generally predicate the authority of rules that govern society on the idea that these rules are the product of a contractual agreement struck between members of society. These theories embody values, such as equality, reciprocity and rationality, that are highly prized within our culture. Yet a closer inspection reveals that these features exclude other important values, relations and even persons from the realm of contractual morality and justice, especially people with severe intellectual disabilities. Jonas-Sebastien Beaudry explores the moral status of intellectually disabled people in social contract thought and argues that this tradition needs to be revisited to include the most vulnerable. Addressing this problem will have concrete repercussions in law and policy, because many issues that people with disabilities face are connected to deeply rooted assumptions about their status as full citizens or full members of our moral, political and legal communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009038324
• Artikelnr.: 62733522

Autorenporträt

Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry is an assistant professor of law at McGill University and a member of the Bar of Quebec. He has published several articles on human rights, applied ethics, and disability studies, as well as a book on freedom of expression in Latin America.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Intellectual disability and the social contract
2. Inclusive contractarianism: persons with severe intellectual disabilities within a society of self-interested contractors
3. The capacity to trust as a contractual basis for robust moral status
4. People with severe intellectual disabilities as active citizens
5. People with severe intellectual disabilities as passive citizens
6. Other-regarding concern and exploitation
7. Beyond contractual relations.