This book explores a topic that historians of philosophy have so far neglected almost completely: debates about the morality of slavery in eighteenth-century North America and Europe. Author Julia Jorati pays particular attention to the role that race plays in these debates. Each of the five chapters covers intriguing and philosophically important texts about slavery and race from a specific geographic region: North America, Scotland, England, France, and lastly, the Netherlands and Germany. The book--and a companion volume also by Jorati on slavery and race in the sixteenth and seventeenth…mehr
This book explores a topic that historians of philosophy have so far neglected almost completely: debates about the morality of slavery in eighteenth-century North America and Europe. Author Julia Jorati pays particular attention to the role that race plays in these debates. Each of the five chapters covers intriguing and philosophically important texts about slavery and race from a specific geographic region: North America, Scotland, England, France, and lastly, the Netherlands and Germany. The book--and a companion volume also by Jorati on slavery and race in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--will serve as a resource for scholars, instructors, and students of philosophy and neighboring disciplines.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Julia Jorati is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She specializes in early modern philosophy with a particular focus on metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and ethics. In addition to numerous articles about Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and several other early modern philosophers, she is the author of Leibniz on Causation and Agency and the editor of Powers: A History.
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Series editors' foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. North American debates about slavery and race 1.1 Equal natural rights 1.2 The Golden Rule and imaginary role reversal 1.3 Souls, salvation, and slavery 1.4 Natural capacities, equality, and slavery 1.5 The nature, origins, and effects of racial bias 2. Scottish debates about slavery and race 2.1 Gershom Carmichael 2.2 Francis Hutcheson 2.3 David Hume 2.4 George Wallace 2.5 Adam Ferguson 2.6 James Beattie 2.7 James Dunbar 2.8 James Ramsay 3. English debates about slavery and race 3.1 Edward Trelawny 3.2 Thomas Rutherforth 3.3 Two Dialogues on the Man-Trade 3.4 Thomas Clarkson 3.5 Dorothy Kilner 3.6 Quobna Ottobah Cugoano 3.7 Olaudah Equiano 3.8 Mary Wollstonecraft 4. Francophone debates about slavery and race 4.1 Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu 4.2 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 4.3 Voltaire 4.4 Diderot's and D'Alembert's Encyclopedia 4.5 Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, Denis Diderot, Jean-Joseph de Pechméja, and the History of the Two Indies 4.6 Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet 4.7 Olympe de Gouges 5. Dutch and German debates about slavery and race 5.1 Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein 5.2 Immanuel Kant Bibliography Index
Series editors' foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. North American debates about slavery and race 1.1 Equal natural rights 1.2 The Golden Rule and imaginary role reversal 1.3 Souls, salvation, and slavery 1.4 Natural capacities, equality, and slavery 1.5 The nature, origins, and effects of racial bias 2. Scottish debates about slavery and race 2.1 Gershom Carmichael 2.2 Francis Hutcheson 2.3 David Hume 2.4 George Wallace 2.5 Adam Ferguson 2.6 James Beattie 2.7 James Dunbar 2.8 James Ramsay 3. English debates about slavery and race 3.1 Edward Trelawny 3.2 Thomas Rutherforth 3.3 Two Dialogues on the Man-Trade 3.4 Thomas Clarkson 3.5 Dorothy Kilner 3.6 Quobna Ottobah Cugoano 3.7 Olaudah Equiano 3.8 Mary Wollstonecraft 4. Francophone debates about slavery and race 4.1 Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu 4.2 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 4.3 Voltaire 4.4 Diderot's and D'Alembert's Encyclopedia 4.5 Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, Denis Diderot, Jean-Joseph de Pechméja, and the History of the Two Indies 4.6 Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet 4.7 Olympe de Gouges 5. Dutch and German debates about slavery and race 5.1 Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein 5.2 Immanuel Kant Bibliography Index
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