Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy by Justin E. H. Smith
Requirements: ePUB Reader, 6MB
Overview: 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.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Philosophy
Download Instructions:
http://gestyy.com/wXun1h
http://gestyy.com/wXun1m
http://gestyy.com/wXun1T
