Nature, human nature, and human difference: race in early modern philosophy

✍ Scribed by Smith, Justin E. H

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2017;2015
Tongue: English
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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, this work 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.

✦ Subjects

Ethnicity--Philosophy;Evolution (Biology);Philosophy of nature;Race--Philosophy;Science--Philosophy;Race -- Philosophy;Ethnicity -- Philosophy;Science -- Philosophy

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