How Long to Read The Life Worth Living

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life Worth Living?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 1 minute to read The Life Worth Living by Joel Michael Reynolds

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: “let there be a law that no deformed child shall live.” This idea is alive and well today. During the past century, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. argued that the United States can forcibly sterilize intellectually disabled women and philosopher Peter Singer argued for the right of parents to euthanize certain cognitively disabled infants. The Life Worth Living explores how and why such arguments persist by investigating the exclusion of and discrimination against disabled people across the history of Western moral philosophy. Joel Michael Reynolds argues that this history demonstrates a fundamental mischaracterization of the meaning of disability, thanks to the conflation of lived experiences of disability with those of pain and suffering. Building on decades of activism and scholarship in the field, Reynolds shows how longstanding views of disability are misguided and unjust, and he lays out a vision of what an anti-ableist moral future requires. The Life Worth Living is the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of the history of moral philosophy and phenomenology, and it demonstrates how lived experiences of disability demand a far richer account of human flourishing, embodiment, community, and politics in philosophical inquiry and beyond.

How long is The Life Worth Living?

The Life Worth Living by Joel Michael Reynolds is 181 pages long, and a total of 45,431 words.

This makes it 61% the length of the average book. It also has 56% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life Worth Living Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 8 minutes to read The Life Worth Living aloud.

What Reading Level is The Life Worth Living?

The Life Worth Living is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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