ABSTRACT

This chapter summarizes each of the different approaches to the other, showing how they are complementary and how together they can offer a more comprehensive account of other-person-ness. In this comprehensive account discrimination and injustice are recognized as realities in the lives of disabled people but they can be challenged by a re-visioning of the other in terms both of relationship and being, and by appreciating a deeper and more human approach to the other that includes affective knowledge. In effect, the diversity among human beings is something to be celebrated: it is alright to be an other.