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Humanity exists in its greatest
perfection in the white race. The yellow Indians have a smaller
amount of talent. The Negroes are lower, and the lowest are a part
of the American peoples. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. |
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The race of the American cannot be educated. It has no motivating force, for it lacks affect and passion. They are not in love, thus they are also not afraid. They hardly speak, do not caress each other, care about nothing and are lazy. Philosophische Anthropologie |
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They can be educated but only as servants (slaves), that is they allow themselves to be trained. Sobre os negros em Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. |
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(…) In short, this fellow was quite black from head to foot, a clear proof that he was stupid. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. |
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So fundamental is the difference between these two races of man (whites and Negroes), and it appears to be as great in regard to mental capacities as in color Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. |
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An extraordinary apathy constitutes the mark of this type of race. Sobre os índios em Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. |
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(…) Cite a single example in which a Negro has shown talents, and (…) that among the hundreds of thousands of blacks who have been transported elsewhere from their countries, although many of them have been set free, still not one was ever found who presented anything great in art or science or any other praiseworthy quality.
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of
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Quoted
from “Kant, Race and Reason”, de Matthew R. Hachee, da página
http://www.msu.edu/~hacheema/kant2.htm
. There are more racist opinions of
the philisopher in the text.
Referências
Kant, Immanuel. Anthropology From a Pragmatic Point of View, trans. Mary J. Gregor. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974.
Kant, Immanuel.
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. H.J. Payton. New York:
Harper Torchbooks, 1964.
Kant, Immanuel.
Lectures on Ethics (1780-1781), trans. Louis Infield. London: Methuen,
1930.
Kant, Immanuel.
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime, trans. John
T. Goldthwait. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.
Kant, Immanuel.
"On the Different Races of Man." Found in This is Race: An
Anthology Selected from the International Literature on the Races of Man.
New York: Schuman, 1950. |
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