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Ableism

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Ableism gives disabling force to judgments and arrangements organized around favored capacities. Taylor’s criticism asks how such hierarchies affect access and moral consideration.

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Guided course · Module 14 · Lesson 86
Whose capacities set the terms of moral standing?
Taylor, Singer and Regan disagree about whose interests count. The lesson tests thresholds of capacity for moral standing and keeps the differences between disability criticism and animal ethics in view.