Johann Gottlieb Stoll and Forster’s Challenge to Kant

IF 1.3 Q2 ETHNIC STUDIES

Critical Philosophy of Race Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.5325/critphilrace.10.2.0295

J. van Gorkom

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Abstract:When in 1786 Georg Forster criticized Immanuel Kant’s racial theory, he famously challenged him to oppose slavery. Although Kant declined to take up this challenge, the discussion between Forster and Kant was the impetus for Johann Gottlieb Stoll to present his views on the matter. In his defense of monogenesis Stoll did what Kant had failed to do, namely, explicitly criticize oppressive institutions like the slave trade and slavery with a demand to respect the dignity and humanity of every human being, independent of their physiological traits. Although his work has been ignored ever since its publication, he offered an even greater challenge to Kant than Forster. He defended the idea that so-called race mixing not only proved the unity of the human species but was also not contrary to nature. Not only did he distance himself from Kant but also from Forster. He challenged his readers to consider the ability of non-Whites to be an example for Whites.

查看原文本刊更多论文

摘要：1786年，格奥尔格·福斯特批评康德的种族理论时，曾向康德提出反对奴隶制的著名挑战。尽管康德拒绝接受这一挑战，但福斯特和康德之间的讨论推动了约翰·戈特利布·斯托尔提出他对此事的看法。在为单基因论辩护时，斯托尔做了康德没有做的事，即明确批评奴隶贸易和奴隶制等压迫性制度，要求尊重每个人的尊严和人性，而不依赖于他们的生理特征。尽管他的作品自出版以来一直被忽视，但他对康德提出了比福斯特更大的挑战。他为这样一种观点辩护，即所谓的种族混合不仅证明了人类物种的统一，而且并不违背自然。他不仅与康德保持距离，而且与福斯特也保持距离。他向读者提出挑战，要求他们考虑非白人成为白人榜样的能力。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Critical Philosophy of Race ETHNIC STUDIES-

CiteScore

2.30

自引率

0.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： The critical philosophy of race consists in the philosophical examination of issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world. Critical philosophy of race is a critical enterprise in three respects: it opposes racism in all its forms; it rejects the pseudosciences of old-fashioned biological racialism; and it denies that anti-racism and anti-racialism summarily eliminate race as a meaningful category of analysis. Critical philosophy of race is a philosophical enterprise because of its engagement with traditional philosophical questions and in its readiness to engage critically some of the traditional answers.