ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the question of whether in public life the ubiquitously desired inclusion of people with impairments and those with special developmental needs can be demonstrated in moral-philosophical discourse as ethically imperative, or whether it can only be shown to be socially desired. It reconstructs the philosophical discourse of rationality as a discourse of exclusion of questions concerning disability and the disabled. The chapter shows that the traditional moral-philosophical concepts of flourishing, of a duty-bound or happy life miss the perspective of the impaired person and of disability. It shows that even in the modern discourse paradigm, the impaired person comes to the fore merely as an 'argument' or 'object', but not as a subject or as someone with arguments. As a consequence of the results of reconstruction, the chapter outlines a sketch in which the approach of an ethics of responsibility in discourse ethics forms the starting-point.
