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The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship

Stacy Clifford Simplican

Print publication date: 2015

Print ISBN-13: 9780816693979

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: January 2016

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693979.001.0001

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Locke’s Capacity Contract and the Construction of Idiocy

Locke’s Capacity Contract and the Construction of Idiocy

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(p.25) Chapter 1 Locke’s Capacity Contract and the Construction of Idiocy
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The Capacity Contract
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Stacy Clifford Simplican

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University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816693979.003.0002

Chapter one examines John Locke’s treatment of disability, showing how he drew on disability to symbolize both shared human vulnerability and the outer skirts of personhood. I conceptualize Locke’s treatment of disability as two sides of a capacity contract, showing how uncertainty over human capacities invites both exclusion and solidarity.

Keywords:   Social contract, Feminist disability studies, Arendt, Rawls, Locke, Disability Rights, Democracy

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