Rationality, Representation, and Race

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Beschreibung

During the Enlightenment, rationality becomes not a property belonging to all humans but something that one must achieve. This transformation has the effect of excluding non-whites and non-males from the domain of reason. Heikes seeks to uncover the source of this exclusion, which she argues stems from the threat of subjectivism inherent in modern thinking. As an alternative, she considers post-Cartesian reactions of modern representationalism as well as ancient Greek understandings of mind as simply one part of a functionally diverse soul. In the end, she maintains that treating rationality as an evolutionarily situated virtue concept allows for an understanding of rationality that recognizes diversity and that grounds substantive moral concepts.

Über den Autor

Deborah Heikes is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She is the author of Rationality and Feminist Philosophy and The Virtue of Feminist Rationality.

Zusammenfassung

Uncovers the source of the exclusion of non-whites and non-males from the rationality of the Enlightenment

Presents rationality as an evolutionarily situated virtue concept in order to ground substantive moral concepts and recognise diversity

Describes an alternative to the subjectivism inherent in modern thinking

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. What's the Problem?
2. Representation and Racism
3. Philosophy's Outward Turn
4. The Origin of Mind
5. The Promise of Virtue
References
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xii 262 S.
ISBN-13:	9781137591708
ISBN-10:	1137591706
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-1-137-59170-8
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Heikes, Deborah K
Auflage:	1st edition 2016
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Deborah K Heikes
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.05.2016
Gewicht:	0,473 kg

Artikel-ID: 103899733