Nature, Human Nature, &Human Difference: Race

in Early Modern Philosophy

Publication info: ProtoView ; Beaverton   Vol. 2, Iss. 30,  Beaverton: Ringgold Inc. (Aug 5, 2015)

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ABSTRACT
 
The author argues that the racial typing of human beings began as scientists and philosophers sought to create
taxonomies for all of nature, including human beings, and shows how their biological classification of non-
Europeans and non-whites into non-human categories later became a justification of slavery.

TRANSLATED ABSTRACT (SUMMARY)

Penulis berpendapat bahwa pengetikan rasial manusia dimulai saat ilmuwan dan filsuf berusaha menciptakan
taksonomi untuk semua alam, termasuk manusia, dan menunjukkan bagaimana klasifikasi biologis mereka non-
Eropa dan non-kulit putih ke dalam kategori non-manusia kemudian menjadi pembenaran perbudakan.

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ISBN: 9780691153643
TITLE: Nature, Human Nature, &Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy
AUTHOR: Justin E. H. Smith
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press
PUBLISH DATE: 2015
PAGES: 296
PRICE: $39.95
BINDING: Hardcover
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION: GN269
REVIEW: This study charts the history and development of Western philosophers' ideas on race and racial
difference, examining primary source texts of philosophy and natural science written during the period between
the Spanish Renaissance and the German Enlightenment. While there is special emphasis on the ideas of G. W.
Leibniz, other writers and thinkers discussed include Francois Bernier, Immanuel Kant, Anton Wilhelm Amo, J. G.
Herder, J. F. Blumenbach, and Isaac La Peyr<'e>re. The author argues that the racial typing of human beings
began as scientists and philosophers sought to create taxonomies for all of nature, including human beings, and
shows how their biological classification of non-Europeans and non-whites into non-human categories later
became a justification of slavery. The book begins by engaging with current philosophical accounts of racial
categories in both the social constructionist and cognitivist approaches. Later discussion encompasses the
development of Renaissance debates on the nature of human diversity and early modern accounts of human
phenotypic diversity. (© Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)

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Subject: Philosophy; Race; Writers; Vocabularies &taxonomies; Philosophers

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 Publication title: ProtoView; Beaverton

Volume: 2

Issue: 30

Publication year: 2015

Publication date: Aug 5, 2015

Publisher: Ringgold Inc

Place of publication: Beaverton

Country of publication: United States, Beaverton

Publication subject: Bibliographies

ISSN: 23723424

Source type: Other Sources

Language of publication: English

Document type: Book Review

ProQuest document ID: 1701632064

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