Caught between character and race : 'temperament' in Kant's lectures on anthropology

Jennifer Mensch

Caught between character and race : 'temperament' in Kant's lectures on anthropology

Jennifer Mensch

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Abstract

Focusing on Immanuel Kant's lectures on anthropology, the essay endeavours to address long-standing concerns regarding both the relationship between these empirical investigations and Kant's better-known universalism, and more pressingly, between Kant's own racism on display in the lectures, and his simultaneous promotion of a universal moral theory that would unhesitatingly condemn such attitudes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Philosophies of Difference: Nature, Racism, and Sexual Difference
Editors	Ryan S. Gustafsson, Rebecca Hill, Helen Ngo
Place of Publication	U.K.
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	125-144
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	9781138617506
Publication status	Published - 2019

Keywords

Kant
Immanuel
1724-1804
anthropology
temperament
criticism (philosophy)
reasoning

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