Re‐Envisioning Independence and Community: Critiques from the Independent Living Movement and L'Arche

McCrary, Lorraine Krall

doi:10.1111/josp.12195

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“…In saying this we are not suggesting that the matter has received no philosophical attention. For instance, in what has been called the ‘fullest systematic, philosophical’ statement of the aspirations of the Independent Living movement the primary goal is described as each person ‘having a good self-image […] feeling oneself to be a responsible, productive, fully contributing and participating, a fully accepted and respected member of society’ (McCrary, 2017, p. 383). There are echoes of the broadly Rawlsian language found in our introductory remarks, but this goal as stated by the Independent Living movement is not formulated in the language of citizenship.…”

Section: What We Talk About When We Talk About Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizenship, Ability, and Contribution

DeVidi¹,

Klausen²,

Lowry³

2023

Philosophy

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People with significant cognitive disabilities and others who advocate on their behalf routinely state their claims in terms of enabling people to claim their full citizenship. Informed by the results of a study by one of the authors, we draw attention to some of these claims, and discuss what a just society ought to do so that members with significant cognitive disabilities see themselves – and are seen by others – as full, and therefore equal, citizens. Several political philosophers have sought to develop disability-inclusive accounts of justice, using three strategies: (1) defend a permissive understanding of who is owed justice by rejecting contribution to social cooperation as a necessary condition; (2) defend a permissive understanding of what counts as contribution; and (3) argue that some demands of justice are owed to all, while others are owed only to cooperators. We defend a version of the second strategy, arguing that the relevant notion of contribution requires that it be something the agent chooses to do because they know it to be valued by someone else, and we argue that the third strategy also has a role to play.

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Section: What We Talk About When We Talk About Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%