The Anxious Heart of Injustice: Negative Affective Responses to Disabilities
It appears that liberal thought pays too little attention to negative affective responses toward people with disabilities. As a result, liberal theories may lack corrective structures to deal with such emotions and theorists themselves may fall prey to their influence. Assuming these troubling sugge...
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| description | It appears that liberal thought pays too little attention to negative affective responses toward people with disabilities. As a result, liberal theories may lack corrective structures to deal with such emotions and theorists themselves may fall prey to their influence. Assuming these troubling suggestions are at least partly well-founded and thereby warrant closer investigation, I examine three hypothetical causes of this state of affairs: the philosophical distrust toward emotions, the failure to attend to anxious reactions toward anomalous bodies, and the fear of vulnerability connected to liberal ideology. Although the causal factors that I discus are difficult to demonstrate empirically, they are nonetheless intuitively compelling. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dc5a96e7f82c4087a863ad7ce16436af2022-12-21T20:08:46ZengBioéthiqueOnlineBioéthiqueOnline1923-27992016-09-01528The Anxious Heart of Injustice: Negative Affective Responses to DisabilitiesBeaudry, Jonas-Sébastien0Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CanadaIt appears that liberal thought pays too little attention to negative affective responses toward people with disabilities. As a result, liberal theories may lack corrective structures to deal with such emotions and theorists themselves may fall prey to their influence. Assuming these troubling suggestions are at least partly well-founded and thereby warrant closer investigation, I examine three hypothetical causes of this state of affairs: the philosophical distrust toward emotions, the failure to attend to anxious reactions toward anomalous bodies, and the fear of vulnerability connected to liberal ideology. Although the causal factors that I discus are difficult to demonstrate empirically, they are nonetheless intuitively compelling.http://bioethiqueonline.ca/5/28emotionsaffective responsesliberalismdisability |
| spellingShingle | Beaudry, Jonas-Sébastien The Anxious Heart of Injustice: Negative Affective Responses to Disabilities BioéthiqueOnline emotions affective responses liberalism disability |
| title | The Anxious Heart of Injustice: Negative Affective Responses to Disabilities |
| title_full | The Anxious Heart of Injustice: Negative Affective Responses to Disabilities |
| title_fullStr | The Anxious Heart of Injustice: Negative Affective Responses to Disabilities |
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| title_short | The Anxious Heart of Injustice: Negative Affective Responses to Disabilities |
| title_sort | anxious heart of injustice negative affective responses to disabilities |
| topic | emotions affective responses liberalism disability |
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