Antropologia niepełnosprawności: narodziny, schyłek i odrodzenie paradygmatu

Abstract

Firstly, the paper reconstructs the core stages of anthropological reflection on disabled human condition. Each stage shows some strengths but, at the same time, limitations, for – according to the thesis advocated by the author – the humankind has still not achieved an appropriate quality of coexistence of disabled and enabled individuals. Secondly, the paper examines modern philosophical anthropologies which could empower such a coexistence. Herder and Gehlen's approaches seem to offer a more a adequate contribution than Kant's (and scholastic) anthropology. A revival of the paradigm is only thinkable due to an overall transvaluation of disability-related axiologies and the postconventionalisation of disability-related norms and institutions as well.