Enlightenment against EmpirePrinceton University Press, 10.01.2009 - 368 Seiten In the late eighteenth century, an array of European political thinkers attacked the very foundations of imperialism, arguing passionately that empire-building was not only unworkable, costly, and dangerous, but manifestly unjust. Enlightenment against Empire is the first book devoted to the anti-imperialist political philosophies of an age often regarded as affirming imperial ambitions. Sankar Muthu argues that thinkers such as Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant, and Johann Gottfried Herder developed an understanding of humans as inherently cultural agents and therefore necessarily diverse. These thinkers rejected the conception of a culture-free "natural man." They held that moral judgments of superiority or inferiority could be made neither about entire peoples nor about many distinctive cultural institutions and practices. |
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... and Culture in Kant's Politics Humanity as Cultural Agency Cultural Freedom and Embedded Reason 3 11 14 24 31 46 52 59 66 72 77 87 97 104 111 122 125 130 From Humanity to Personality Kant's Social Criticism: The Vulnerability and.
... Freedom Anthropological Diversity: From Race to Collective Freedom Anti-imperialism and Cosmopolitan Right An Unusual Social Contract Doctrine Six Pluralism, Humanity, and Empire in Herder's Political Thought Generalizations ...
... freedom creates and perpetuates diverse psychological needs, social inequalities, and political constraints, while also serving potentially as a source for a less unjust society. But they argued, contra Rousseau, that humans are ...
... freedom and reason with diverse environments—rather than as pathological aberrations from a single true way of life as represented by some set of European mores, practices, and institutions—Europeans' brutal treatment of foreign peoples ...
Sankar Muthu. freedom that he associated with 'humanity' and I show how this influenced his views of history and society. In chapter 5, I interpret Kant's account of plural values in order to examine how he defends an antipaternalistic ...
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