Etyczny wymiar niepełnosprawności w wybranych powieściach Doroty Terakowskiej

The ethical aspect of disability in chosen novels of Dorota Terakowska The aim of this article is to set out the ethical aspect of disability present in two novels by Dorota Terakowska: Where the angels fall down [Tam, gdzie spadają anioły] and Pupa [Poczwarka]. The philosophy of Simo Vehmas, an author based in Stockholm, is the starting point to ask about ethical issues connected with disability. Vehmas noted three definitions of this phenomenon: universalist, subjectivist, and communitarian. Reading Terakowska’s prose makes it possible to observe two representations of disability in Polish culture (traditional, based on Christianity, the ideology of the Romanticism, and Slavic folk culture, and contemporary, based on the development of medicine and the idea of the welfare state in the second half of the 20th century). Ethical ideas proposed by Terakowska are an interesting alternative to existing views because there is an evident perspective of a person with a disability.