The Capabilities of People with Cognitive Disabilities

In Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson, Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 74–95 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: 1. Frontiers of Justice and the Challenge of Disability 2. The General Approach of Frontiers of Justice 3. Equality and Adequacy 4. Social and Economic Entitlements 5. Equality in Education 6. Equality in Political Entitlements Acknowledgments References.

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justice ‐ capabilities of people with cognitive disabilities   people with cognitive disabilities ‐ twofold challenge to philosophical theories of justice   capabilities approach, and a social‐minimum approach   Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)   approach of frontiers of justice ‐ case of disability, important in its own right   capabilities approach, using idea of a threshold ‐ for each entitlement   equality of capability, essential social goal ‐ absence of equality connected with deficit in dignity and self‐respect   capabilities of people with cognitive disabilities ‐ preference‐based approach to offer bad guidance   education for people with cognitive disabilities ‐ threshold matter, raising issues about capability‐equality   inequality in political entitlements of people with disabilities ‐ examined under stringent standard of judicial review

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original Nussbaum, Martha (2009) "The capabilities of people with cognitive disabilities". Metaphilosophy 40(3-4):331-351

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