Plough Quarterly No. 30 - Made Perfect: Ability and Disability

by Ross Douthat

Book Overview

Whose lives count as fully human? The answer matters for everyone, disabled or not.

The ancient Greek ideal linked physical wholeness to moral wholeness - the virtuous citizen was "beautiful and good." It's an ideal that has all too often turned deadly, casting those who do not measure up as less than human. In the pre-Christian era, infants with disabilities were left on the rocks; in modern times, they have been targeted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1636080499
• ISBN13: 9781636080499
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Plough Publishing House
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.3" x 10.2"