This article provides a justification for whether a human being with a disability should be viewed as a person.Within the discourse of moral and political philosophy,personhood is a serious consideration to determine ...This article provides a justification for whether a human being with a disability should be viewed as a person.Within the discourse of moral and political philosophy,personhood is a serious consideration to determine a person’s moral status.This article considers some philosophical debates regarding the moral status of people with disabilities.It investigates the question:Why shouldn’t people living with disabilities be treated as normal people?The answer to this question raises another one:Are capacity and personhood the only conditions to have moral status?If so,how should a person with a disability be defined?After searching for the answers to these questions,the article came to the conclusion that only moral status is not a result of having the capacity of moral agency but that it is based more on other things.Finally,I conclude that the capacity of acting virtuously or consciously or sentience is not on its own a sufficient condition to grant moral agency to an entity.There are many other conditions to consider the moral status of People with Disabilities.展开更多
This is a bioethical investigation into the nature of the endemic crisis,its survival,and the social construction of moral obligation during the Ebola crisis in Liberia,West Africa.The 2014 outbreak in West Africa was...This is a bioethical investigation into the nature of the endemic crisis,its survival,and the social construction of moral obligation during the Ebola crisis in Liberia,West Africa.The 2014 outbreak in West Africa was the most considerable,most severe,and most complex Ebola epidemic thus far.At the close of the crisis in Liberia,six thousand infected persons survived unexpectedly.The ethics of Ebola and survival is exceptionally complicated and requires a complex theoretical explanation.While a categorical analysis of ethical theory cannot cover the full scope of this moral dilemma,a single concept carried over a range of models does;and,that concept is known as moral obligation.Exploring the obligation of others toward Ebola survivors helps locate,justify,and analyze the fear-based system of morality that arose from the world’s most severe endemic crisis.Examining the obligations of government,community,individuals,and foreign research initiatives toward the survivors of the West African Ebola endemic in Monrovia,this article explores the varying moralities of endemic crisis culture as it examines the complexity of judgment related to social obligation.展开更多
文摘This article provides a justification for whether a human being with a disability should be viewed as a person.Within the discourse of moral and political philosophy,personhood is a serious consideration to determine a person’s moral status.This article considers some philosophical debates regarding the moral status of people with disabilities.It investigates the question:Why shouldn’t people living with disabilities be treated as normal people?The answer to this question raises another one:Are capacity and personhood the only conditions to have moral status?If so,how should a person with a disability be defined?After searching for the answers to these questions,the article came to the conclusion that only moral status is not a result of having the capacity of moral agency but that it is based more on other things.Finally,I conclude that the capacity of acting virtuously or consciously or sentience is not on its own a sufficient condition to grant moral agency to an entity.There are many other conditions to consider the moral status of People with Disabilities.
文摘This is a bioethical investigation into the nature of the endemic crisis,its survival,and the social construction of moral obligation during the Ebola crisis in Liberia,West Africa.The 2014 outbreak in West Africa was the most considerable,most severe,and most complex Ebola epidemic thus far.At the close of the crisis in Liberia,six thousand infected persons survived unexpectedly.The ethics of Ebola and survival is exceptionally complicated and requires a complex theoretical explanation.While a categorical analysis of ethical theory cannot cover the full scope of this moral dilemma,a single concept carried over a range of models does;and,that concept is known as moral obligation.Exploring the obligation of others toward Ebola survivors helps locate,justify,and analyze the fear-based system of morality that arose from the world’s most severe endemic crisis.Examining the obligations of government,community,individuals,and foreign research initiatives toward the survivors of the West African Ebola endemic in Monrovia,this article explores the varying moralities of endemic crisis culture as it examines the complexity of judgment related to social obligation.
