Dugald Stewart and Racial Theory in the Late Scottish Enlightenment.

IF 0.9 2区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI:10.1353/jhi.2026.a1003008

Ian Stewart

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Abstract

This article recovers the racial theory that Dugald Stewart taught as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1785 until 1810. In the third, political, segment of his lecture course Stewart presented various racial theories and offered his own opinion that non-European races were not naturally inferior to Europeans. Slavery, he concluded, was therefore unnatural in all its forms. However, though he believed all races were equally perfectible, Stewart nevertheless presented a picture of the world's peoples arranged along a civilizational scale with "civilised" white Europeans at the top and darker-skinned "savage" races at the bottom.

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杜格尔德·斯图尔特与苏格兰启蒙运动后期的种族理论。

这篇文章恢复了Dugald Stewart从1785年到1810年在爱丁堡大学作为道德哲学教授教授的种族理论。在第三节课的政治部分，斯图尔特提出了各种种族理论，并提出了他自己的观点，即非欧洲种族并不天生就不如欧洲种族。因此，他得出结论，奴隶制在任何形式下都是不自然的。然而，尽管斯图尔特相信所有种族都同样完美，但他还是描绘了一幅世界各国人民按照文明尺度排列的图景，“文明的”欧洲白人位于顶端，肤色较深的“野蛮”种族位于底部。

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