https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2018.560

Differentemente. Per un'etica dell'accomodamento ragionevole / Differently. For a reasonable accommodation ethics

Vol. 67 No. 6 (2018)
Submitted: January 25, 2019
Accepted: January 25, 2019
Published: January 25, 2019
accomodamento ragionevole, disabilità, etica, uguaglianza, indifferenza / reasonable accommodation, disability, ethics, equality, indifference
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Alessio Musio
alessio.musio@unicatt.it
Dipartimento di Filosofia e Centro di Ateneo di Bioetica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy.
Nel testo della Convenzione Onu sui Diritti delle persone con disabilità (2007) l'espressione "accomodamento ragionevole" è decisiva. Se lo scopo è quello di promuovere «il pieno e uguale godimento di tutti i diritti umani e di tutte le libertà fondamentali da parte delle persone con disabilità» (così l'art. 1), la categoria di "accomodamento ragionevole" emerge sin da subito come il mezzo riflessivo di tale finalità. Scopo del presente saggio è riflettere sul significato etico dell'accomodamento ragionevole, alla luce di una riflessione sul rapporto tra uguaglianza e differenza umane. L'uguaglianza come equità, infatti, non ha nulla a che vedere con l'egualitarismo. L'ideale morale dell'uguaglianza richiede, al contrario, un'etica che sappia valutare il tema delle differenze, andando oltre il tema della sola diversità di genere (maschile/femminile), per pensare direttamente i temi della disabilità. Ne deriva la possibilità di rispondere a quell'indifferenza che nell'epoca delle tecno-scienze tende a diventare, da semplice fatto, una vera e propria cultura antitetica alle logiche della giustizia sociale e dell'amore.
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"Reasonable accommodation" is a fundamental term for The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2007). If the aim is to promote "the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities" (Article 1), the category of "reasonable accommodation" emerges immediately as the reflective means of this purpose. The aim of the present article is to reflect on the ethical meaning of reasonable accommodation, in the light of a reflection around the relationship between equality and human difference. In fact, equality as fairness, has nothing to do with egalitarianism. The moral ideal of equality requires, on the contrary, an ethic able to evaluate the topic of differences, going beyond the theme of gender diversity (male/female), in order to think directly about the issues of disability. The result is the possibility of responding to the indifference that in the age of techno-sciences tends to become, from a simple fact, a true antithetical culture to the logic of social justice and love.

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Musio, A. (2019). Differentemente. Per un’etica dell’accomodamento ragionevole / Differently. For a reasonable accommodation ethics. Medicina E Morale, 67(6), 641–652. https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2018.560

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