Black Rights - White Wrongs the-critique

( 78 ) Black Rights/White Wrongs men,” not “men as narrated, thought of, imagined, conceived,” but “as they actually are,” in (c ...

“IdeaL theoRy” as IdeoLogy ( 79 ) weirdly detached from the prescriptive: this is the good and the right— but we are not concern ...

( 80 ) Black Rights/White Wrongs to ignore female subordination, represent the family as ideal, and pretend that women have been ...

“IdeaL theoRy” as IdeoLogy ( 81 ) an affirmation of a group- based particularism. (Think of the famous T- shirt slogan worn by s ...

( 82 ) Black Rights/White Wrongs by different systems— for example, race and gender, or gender and North/ South domination. The ...

“IdeaL theoRy” as IdeoLogy ( 83 ) patterns. In particular, it will often be the case that dominant concepts will obscure certain ...

( 84 ) Black Rights/White Wrongs and naturalized space. In the case of sexual harassment, a familiar reality— a staple of cartoo ...

“IdeaL theoRy” as IdeoLogy ( 85 ) Or consider a (today) far more respectable ideal, that of autonomy. This notion has been centr ...

( 86 ) Black Rights/White Wrongs ideal liberal individual, the “person,” is supposed to be entitled to certain basic rights and ...

“IdeaL theoRy” as IdeoLogy ( 87 ) or— to the extent that it does make the dynamic of oppression central and theory- guiding— it ...

( 88 ) Black Rights/White Wrongs Or consider another example, where the opening for a discussion of race is actually explicitly ...

“IdeaL theoRy” as IdeoLogy ( 89 ) prides itself on being “historical,” by contrast with the “current time- slice principles” of ...

( 90 ) Black Rights/White Wrongs sense it is often meant— as a repudiation of ethics in the name of amorality and realpolitik— b ...

CHAPTER 6 Kant’s Untermenschen A nd that brings us to personhood, and a title deliberately chosen to be provocative. In bringing ...

( 92 ) Black Rights/White Wrongs autonomy), morally deserve to be protected by certain rights and freedoms, and who are on a nor ...

KaNt’s UNTERMENSCHEN ( 93 ) meant to be extended generally outside the European population. What seem to be racist inconsistenci ...

( 94 ) Black Rights/White Wrongs racially normed, they become transparent. Mainstream political phi- losophy textbooks sanitize ...

KaNt’s UNTERMENSCHEN ( 95 ) In this spirit, Allen Wood speaks of what he sees as Kant’s “unqualified egalitarianism”: People ten ...

( 96 ) Black Rights/White Wrongs They can never achieve the level of abstract concepts. A great hindustani man is one who has go ...

KaNt’s UNTERMENSCHEN ( 97 ) Instead of assimilation, which was intended by the melting together of the various races, Nature has ...