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- Title
White Progress: Kant, Race and Teleology.
- Authors
Marwah, Inder S.
- Abstract
This article examines how Kant's conceptualizations of natural history and teleological judgement shape his understanding of human difference and race. I argue that the teleological framework encasing Kant's racial theory implies constraints on the capacity of non-whites to make moral progress. While commentators tend to approach Kant's racial theory in relation to his political theory, his late-life cosmopolitanism, and his treatments (or non-treatments) of colonialism, empire and slavery, the problem I focus on here is that race is itself only intelligible in relation to a teleological natural history limiting certain races' capacities to engage in humanity's moral vocation.
- Publication
Kantian Review, 2022, Vol 27, Issue 4, p615
- ISSN
1369-4154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1369415422000334