Learning from my daughter : the value and care of disabled minds Eva Feder Kittay

Learning from my daughter : the value and care of disabled minds – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190844615,0190844612

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190844612
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780190844615
• Author(s): Eva Feder Kittay

Does life have meaning? What is flourishing? How do we attain the good life? Philosophers, and many others of us, have explored these questions for centuries. As Eva Feder Kittay points out, however, there is a flaw in the essential premise of these questions: they seem oblivious to the very nature of the ways in which humans live, omitting a world of co-dependency, and of the fact that we live in and through our bodies, whether they are fully abled or disabled. Our dependent, vulnerable, messy, changeable, and embodied experience colors everything about our lives both on the surface and when it comes to deeper concepts, but we tend to leave aside the body for the mind when it comes to philosophical matters. Disability offers a powerful challenge to long-held philosophical views about the nature of the good life, what provides meaning in our lives, and the centrality of reason, as well as questions of justice, dignity, and personhood. These concepts need not be distant and idealized; the answers are right before us, in the way humans interact with one another, care for one another, and need one another―whether they possess full mental capacities or have cognitive limitations. We need to revise our concepts of things like dignity and personhood in light of this important correction, Kittay argues.

Table contents:

Part I Learning to Become a Humbler Philosopher
Overview: The Journey and Its Ends
1. On What Matters/Not
2. The New Normal and a Good Life
3. The Limits of Choice
4. The Ethics of Prenatal Testing and Selection
5. How Not to Argue for Selective Reproductive Procedures
Part III Care In Philosophy, Disability, and Ethics
6. Dependency and Disability
7. An Ethics of Care
8. The Completion of Care—The Normativity of Care
9. Forever Small: The Strange Case of Ashley X
Bibliography
Index

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