Can you be friends with the intellectually disabled?
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An interesting disagreement came up at this year’s Fall Conference on friendship at Notre Dame. Alasdair MacIntyre argued during his keynote that friendship requires equality, and that relationships where there is inequality or which are focused on the care of one by the other are more “friendly relations” than true friendships. Later, Stanley Hauerwas spoke on friendships with the intellectually disabled at L’Arche, and someone repeated MacIntyre’s remarks in a question: Given the caregiver role of the “assistants” in the L’Arche communities and the intellectual differences between those with disabilities and those without, can there really be friendships? That is, can those with intellectual disabilities really be friends with those without?
Can you be friends with the intellectually disabled?
Can you be friends with the intellectually…
Can you be friends with the intellectually disabled?
An interesting disagreement came up at this year’s Fall Conference on friendship at Notre Dame. Alasdair MacIntyre argued during his keynote that friendship requires equality, and that relationships where there is inequality or which are focused on the care of one by the other are more “friendly relations” than true friendships. Later, Stanley Hauerwas spoke on friendships with the intellectually disabled at L’Arche, and someone repeated MacIntyre’s remarks in a question: Given the caregiver role of the “assistants” in the L’Arche communities and the intellectual differences between those with disabilities and those without, can there really be friendships? That is, can those with intellectual disabilities really be friends with those without?