PHI 3395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Glossary Of Tennis Terms, Fundamental Justice, Assisted Suicide
19 Nov 2016
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Issue: how to best protect equality of persons and avoid discrimination. [canadian charter of rights and freedoms: 15. (1). One thing you need to remember the list of categories you can place people in will never end: ex. adding sexual orientation to the list. The categorical approach to equality fail to comprehend complex social identities : ex. However, there is a difference in treatment/situation of a white woman vs a. There is a difference between an able- bodied woman and a disabled woman . While women is a category, it doesn"t truly include every woman in the same way: [note: some of the matters in cases criticized here (ex. Mossop: have by now been dealt with way that answers the criticism] Basic problem: categorical approach establishes notions of normal. You"re creating a normal and thus everything else is. Some categories are better/ideal than others: it labels people, imposes fixed identities on them, meaning to help, it actually:
