Webb20 sep. 2024 · Race science emerged at a moment in time where colonialism, dispossession, and enslavement were emerging to prop up the empires of Western Europe. These philosophical musings and empirical studies—if they can be called that—were utilized in order to offer rationales for European conquest. WebbExplained in this manner, an individual “could satisfy all the properties requisite for metaphysical personhood and lack all the properties requisite for moral personhood” (Beauchamp 1999, 310). Although Menkiti is not clear that these metaphysical capacities are necessary for moral personhood, it does seem as though these capacities would be …
Emmanuel Eze, The Color of Reason: The Idea of ‘Race’ in Kant’s ...
Webb30 maj 2024 · With regards to black consciousness of blackness, Mbembe points out that ‘Black – we must not forget – aspires also to be a color. The color of obscurity. In this view Black is what lives in the night. Night is its original envelope, the tissue out of which its flesh is made. It is a coat of arms, its uniform’ (p.152). http://www.con-textoskantianos.net/index.php/revista/article/view/330/496 cryptolith sigil
The Color of Reason: The Idea of "Race" in Kant
Webb10 jan. 2014 · His "Translator's Introduction" is a very careful essay in the historiography of recent work on Kant and race, recognizing the triggering intervention of Emmanuel Eze and then Tsenay Serequeberhan in the early 1990s, both reflecting a sharp post-colonialist critique of Eurocentrism. Webbcussions of Kant’s “understanding of anthropology,” his reading of the works of the Geneva-born French social contract theorist Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) as formative sources for Kant’s view of “human nature,” his “idea of ‘race,’ ” and a “critique of [his] anthropology and raciology,” Eze concludes WebbKant's Early Race Theory The initial literature around Kant's theories of race focused on expanding awareness of Kant's racial thought and combatting the temptation to treat it … cryptolli