Defending Privilege Seth Forman mental capacity and accountability explore

mental capacity and accountability explore how understanding and application are equally important

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and includes new research from the Gallery's curators and art historian John Ingamells

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Defending Privilege Seth Forman mental capacity and accountability exploreAs revolution and popular unrest roiled the final decades of the eighteenth century, authors, activists, and philosophers across the British Empire hailed the rise of the liberal subject, valorizing the humanity of the marginalized and the rights of members of groups long considered inferior or subhuman. Yet at the same time, a group of conservative authors mounted a reactionary attempt to cultivate sympathy for the privileged. In Defending Privilege,