Social Liberty and the Physically Disabled
作者:
PHILLIP COLE,
期刊:
Journal of Applied Philosophy
(WILEY Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 4,
issue 1
页码: 29-39
ISSN:0264-3758
年代: 1987
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1987.tb00200.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACTLiberal political philosophy has little of interest to say about the social liberty of the physically disabled. It accepts that the physically disabled and the able‐bodied are equally at liberty, even though the former can do far less than the latter; and it concludes that there are no interesting political statements we can make about their situation. In this essay, I assume that the physically disabled are unfree, not merely unable, to use public facilities which do not take their disability into account, thereby excluding them. I criticise liberal theories of liberty by exposing and questioning the assumptions which entail the liberal theorist's rejecting this claim. I conclude that there is a form of negative liberty which does enable the liberal theorist to make political statements about the freedom of the disabled [1
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