Now was fine when you're thinking about adult men with no disabilities. But as some of...
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Martha Nussbaum:
Now
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Martha Nussbaum:
was fine when you're thinking about adult men with no disabilities. But as some of them already began to notice, it doesn't do so well when you think about women because women's oppression has always been partly occasioned by their physical weakness compared to men. And so if you leave out that physical asymmetry, you may be leaving out a problem that a theory of justice will need to fix. But it certainly does not do well when we think about people with serious physical and mental disabilities. And in fact, some of the theorists who noticed that said, well, this is a problem, but we'll just have to solve it later. We'll get the theory first and work on this problem as some other point. Well, my thought is, that this is not a small problem. There are a lot of people with serious mental and physical disabilities but, it's not only that, it's all of us, when we're little children and as we age. How do you think about justice when you're dealing with bodies that are very unequal in their ability and their power and perhaps even harder, how do you think about it when you're dealing with mental powers that are very, very unequal in their potential.
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it doesn't do so well when you think about women
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because women's oppression has always been partly occasioned
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by their physical weakness compared to men
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And so if you leave out that physical asymmetry
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you may be leaving out a problem that a theory of justice will need to fix
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But it certainly does not do well when we think about justice
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for people with serious physical and mental disabilities
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And in fact some of the theorists who noticed that said
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Well this is a problem but we'll just have to solve it later
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Timestamp in movie: 00h 33m 34s
Uploaded: 27 March, 2022
Genres: documentary
Summary: In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.
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