Mental Illnesses and Citizenship Status
Abstract
There is a reason why philosophers who do political theory should be interested in mental illnesses or disorders. This consists in that some of these are described as severely or deeply disturbing or as ultimately disabling certain capacities that have been assumed as central to a member of society for doing activities and practices that would describe her as a citizen. These capacities have been assumed through many political accounts from classical and modern to contemporary ages. Consequently, all those members of society that lack these capacities have been implicitly or explicitly excluded from the political community, i.e., its citizen status has been denied. Determining which mental illnesses limit or completely disenable them is the goal of the present paper.Downloads
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