Caught Between Character and Race: 'Temperament' in Kant's Lectures on Anthropology

Australian Feminist Law Journal 43 (1):125-144 (2017)
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Focusing on Immanuel Kant's lectures on anthropology, the essay endeavors 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. Reprinted in: 'Philosophies of Difference: Nature, Racism, and Sexuate Difference' edited by R. Gustafsson, R. Hill, and H. Ngo (Routledge, 2019), pp. 125-144.

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The metaphysics of morals.Immanuel Kant - 1797/1996 - New York: Cambridge University Press. Edited by Mary J. Gregor.
Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime.Immanuel Kant - 1960 - Berkeley,: University of California Press. Edited by Immanuel Kant.

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