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Cognitive Disability, Paternalism, and the Global Burden of Disease
In Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 183–199 (2010)
Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled: The Case for Restricting the Civil Liberties of the Cognitively Disabled Two Conceptions of Competence Further Topics Editor's Note.
cognitive disability, paternalism, and global burden of disease social justice, set of principles ‐ human adults, enjoying average or better cognitive function adults of normal intelligence ‐ without obtaining consent of anyone, valuing autonomy question of cognitive “competence” and decision‐making authority restricting civil liberties of cognitively disabled persons of normal intelligence ‐ danger or risk to their own interests standard liberal principle, doing as we please ‐ as long as interests of others are not unfairly threatened cognitively disabled persons, a threat to their own welfare ‐ not in itself sufficient reason to deny them liberty to do so conceptions of competence ‐ relativism, mental capacity, admitting of “more” and “less” civil liberties in era of biotechnological enhancement
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