Rendre justice aux personnes handicapées et à leurs aidants
(2012)
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- Gosseries , Axel
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- (en) How can we justify making deductions from the incomes earned by the valid to compensate the handicaps of the impaired persons with disabilities? Where has the compensation of a handicap to be stopped, and how to define its limits? Some other disciplines could propose some methods to think about it, some arguments and some answers to these questions. To work them out, as a philosopher, implies raising the questions of principles and treating them in a rigorous contradictory debate. The method used is called “the reflective equilibrium”, and proposed by J. Rawls. It concerns testing our most fixed intuitions, and confronting them to the critical thought, in order to set them up, or to improve them, or to leave them. The first chapter examines the question : is it fair to promote autonomy and to fight dependency of the disabled people? To answer this, it is necessary beforehand to define the notion of handicap, in confronting between them the international classifications and the existing etiological models. The second chapter deals with the question : what justice for disabled and dependent people? A relevant metric is suggested to appraise the injustices subjected by disabled and dependent people, and a fair principle of distribution. In this chapter, the theory of equality of resources of R. Dworkin is confronted with the capability approach of A. Sen and M. Nussbaum. The third chapter covers the political terms of compensation, answering the question: what do we owe to disabled and dependent people? The legitimacy of the different kinds of public policies in cash or in kind is examined. Likewise the legitimacy of the affirmative action benefiting disabled people is tested. The fourth chapter considers a possible limit of the compensation of handicap. The question is here: is there a right to affective and sexual life for disabled people? It is required to know if any public policy must or not compensate the lack of affection in the lives of disabled people. The fifth chapter concentrates on the question : should we pay the carergivers of the disabled people or should we subsidize professional care? Testing the legitimacy of public help for the close helpers of dependent people is required, in conceiving together the fairness for those close helpers and the justice for the professional caregivers.
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Sanchez, P. (2012). Rendre justice aux personnes handicapées et à leurs aidants. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/162200