The Disabled Contract - Severe Intellectual Disability, Justice and Morality

Beaudry shows how the social contract fails to take account of the moral status of people with severe intellectual disabilities.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

The social contract tradition, brought back to life by philosopher John Rawls in the late twentieth century, contains values and assumptions that are dear to our liberal ethos. This book examines how this important philosophical tradition nevertheless tends to exclude people with severe intellectual disabilities from the realm of justice.

Foreword

Beaudry shows how the social contract fails to take account of the moral status of people with severe intellectual disabilities.

Product details

• Authors: Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781316606681
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60668-1
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Series: Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Philosophy, Political science and theory, Human rights, civil rights, Disability & The Law, Disability and the law