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Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference - Race in Early Modern Philosophy (Paperback)
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Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference - Race in Early Modern Philosophy (Paperback)
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People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical
and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge
during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a
range of philosophical and natural-scientific texts, dating from
the Spanish Renaissance to the German Enlightenment, Nature, Human
Nature, and Human Difference charts the evolution of the modern
concept of race and shows that natural philosophy, particularly
efforts to taxonomize and to order nature, played a crucial role.
Smith demonstrates how the denial of moral equality between
Europeans and non-Europeans resulted from converging philosophical
and scientific developments, including a declining belief in human
nature's universality and the rise of biological classification.
The racial typing of human beings grew from the need to understand
humanity within an all-encompassing system of nature, alongside
plants, minerals, primates, and other animals. While racial
difference as seen through science did not arise in order to
justify the enslavement of people, it became a rationalization and
buttress for the practices of trans-Atlantic slavery. From the work
of Francois Bernier to G. W. Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, and others,
Smith delves into philosophy's part in the legacy and damages of
modern racism. With a broad narrative stretching over two
centuries, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference takes a
critical historical look at how the racial categories that we
divide ourselves into came into being.
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