Naomi Zack

The Ethics and Mores of Race

Equality after the History of Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

Naomi Zack brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an inquiry into the history of moral philosophy. The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy enters into a web of ideas, ethics, and morals that untangle our evolving ideas of racial equality straight into the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781442211254
• ISBN-10: 1442211253
• Artikelnr.: 33300643

Autorenporträt

Naomi Zack is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is author of White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide (R&L 2015), The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy (R&L 2011), Ethics for Disaster (R&L 2009), and Philosophy of Science and Race (Routledge 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Ethics, Mores, and Race Chapter 1: Plato and
Aristotle's Invention of Race Chapter 2: Cosmopolitan Contributions to an
Ethics of Race Chapter 3: Natural Law and Inequality Chapter 4: Moral Law
and Slavery Chapter 5: Christian Metaphysics and Inequality Chapter 6:
Social Contract Theory and the Sovereign Nation State Chapter 7:
Deontology, Utilitarianism, and Rights Conclusion: Egalitarian Humanism and
Requirements for an Ethics of Race Select Bibliography About the Author