In a sensitively structured and cogent conclusion to his Gifford Lecture Series, Professor Jeremy Waldron tonight set out his argument for the full, unequivocal inclusion of those who are ‘profoundly disabled’ within his schemata for ‘basic human equality’. As he described his ‘bottom line’: ‘those who are profoundly disabled are human persons too, endowed with […]

Turning his attention now to human equality and its relationship to concepts of God, Professor Waldron offered the following alternative challenges: Can there be a religious argument for equality which holds firm in the present day? Or accepting some original theological foundations for human equality, can the ‘jist of the argument be detached from its […]

Building on his adoption last week of John Rawls’ concept of ‘range properties’, that above certain thresholds we all can be considered as bearing ‘equal’ moral capacity irrespective of our variation within the range, Professor Waldron tonight concentrated on working through the challenges and implications that would follow. In other words, if the concept of […]