Inclusion and Discursive Participation

Workshop

14. bis 15. Februar 2019

Exzellenzcluster „Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen“, Raum 5.01
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2
60323 Frankfurt am Main

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Organisation: Dr. Eva Buddeberg (Assoziiertes Mitglied des Exzellenzclusters "Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen"), Regina Schidel (Stipendiatin der Leibniz-Forschungsgruppe "Transnationale Gerechtigkeit")

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From a discourse-ethics perspective, democratic order and discursive practice are closely linked. Correspondingly, the principle of discourse forms the basis for the principle of democracy which is valid “for those action norms that appear in legal form. Such norms can be justified by calling on pragmatic, ethical-political, and moral reasons...” (Habermas 1996, 108) Simultaneously, the principle of discourse is equally fundamental for the principle of universalization of morality which, for K.-O. Apel, is based on the three basic norms of responsibility, justice and solidarity.
Yet, the participation in discursive practices requires certain cognitive and linguistic capacities. Those capacities however differ immensely for each individual. Due to mental disabilities or disorders some individuals have poorly developed or widely lost such capacities. Thus a line could be drawn that excludes all those from the outset who do not at all or only partially possess these rational and linguistic qualities. Since such an exclusion would contradict the discourse-ethical claim to consider all affected human beings directly, the question arises what kind of possibilities a discursive approach can admit for the integration and social participation of human beings who cannot or only partially participate in discourse in the light of its three basic norms without, however, running the risk of deciding falsely on behalf of those human beings with considerable communicative impairments.
The workshop discusses the different potentials and difficulties of discourse-ethical and alternative approaches to justify and enable the inclusion in democratic processes of individuals who cannot participate at all in communicative discourse or only in a reduced manner.

Programm

Thursday, 14.02.2019

13:15
Welcome

13.30-14.30
Thomas Schramme (Liverpool): CAPABLE DELIBERATORS: TOWARDS INCLUSION OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL DISABILITIES IN DISCOURSE PRACTICES

14.30-15.30
Eva Buddeberg (Frankfurt): MORAL OBLIGATION TOWARDS HUMAN BEINGS WITHOUT LANGUAGE - SPEECHLESSNESS AS CHALLENGE FOR DISCOURSE-ETHICAL APPROACHES

15.30-16.00
Break

16.00-17.00
Franziska Felder (Zürich): WHY INCLUSION IS MORE THAN JUST HAVING A DESK WITH ONE’S NAME ON IT – TOWARDS A MULTIDIMENSIONAL VIEW ON JUSTICE IN INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

17.00-18.00
Break

18.00-19.30
Eva Kittay (Stony Brook, New York): INCLUDING MENTALLY DISABLED PEOPLE IN A CONCEPTION OF JUSTICE: GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE

Friday, 15.02.2019

9.00-10.00
Afsoun Afsahi (Amsterdam): DISABLED LIVES IN DELIBERATIVE SYSTEMS

10.00-11.00
Jonathan Wolff (Oxford): COGNITIVE DISABILITY, RELATIONAL AUTONOMY, ART AND INCLUSION

11.00-11.30
Break

11.30-12.30
Regina Schidel (Frankfurt): FROM A RIGHTS-BASED ACCOUNT OF INCLUSION TO AN ADVOCATORY MODEL OF POLITICAL REPRESENTATION

Veranstalter:
Exzellenzcluster „Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen“ der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main in Zusammenarbeit mit der Leibniz-Forschungsgruppe "Transnationale Gerechtigkeit"