Duties of Justice to Citizens with Cognitive Disabilities

Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 127-146

  Wong, Sophia Isako ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocking developmental pathways to moral personhood; Duties of justice to citizens with cognitive disabilities; Human beings, needing specific Enabling Conditions and two moral powers; Marginal cases and argument from species potential.; Personhood, requiring enabling conditions; Rawls's theory of justice not interpreted as treating citizens labeled with cognitive disabilities differently from "nondisabled"; Rawlsian theory of justice, treating citizens labeled with cognitive disabilities differently from other citizens; scope of moral personhood; Successful theory of distributive justice scope, identifying group of individuals to which its principles apply; Theory of distributive justice, allocating goods by members of society in common

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872360292     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444322781.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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