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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Miller, J. Reid
Titre(s) : Stain removal [Texte imprimé] : ethics and race / J. Reid Miller
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University press, cop. 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-204 p.) ; 25 cm
Comprend : Ethics and race ; The everlasting stain ; The secret of the mark ; Cursed inheritance
; Criminal suspicions.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [191]-196. Notes bibliogr. Index
Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed his dream that his children would "one
day not be judged by the color of thie skin, but by the content of their character."
In his vision, a person's ethical qualities would be understood in spite of his or
her body rather than through it. In general, we think that a person's actions should
not be judged according to their physical features, such as race. In fact, we see
evaluations based on a subject's race or other bodily traits as illegitimate. But
Stain Removal argues that our perception of a person's actions always entails judgments
of the body. It therefore challenges modern moral theory's premise that a subject's
deeds and not its bodily traits count as primary objects of evaluation. Drawing on
modern and pre-modern accounts of how ethical knowledge originates, from the Biblical
story of Ham, to Socrates, Immanuel Kant, Alain Locke, Frantz Fanon, Languston Hughes,
Onora O'Neill, and Louis Althusser, the book suggests that our recognition of both
a person and that person's deeds demands an evaluative context. From this it proposes
that all perception is "evaluative perception." Through the metaphor of the stain,
J. Reid Miller traces the long history of though suggesting that embodiments like
race can and do signify ethical qualities. He argues that these qualities do not "attach"
to subjects from the outside--like a stain on innocent and unraced beings--but are
instead what allow us to see people as distinct ethica lindividuals. The objective
of ethics, he shows, is not to determine whether race is good or bad but to illustrate
how our "unique" personal traits emerge through our multiple relations to others.
The consequence is that, contrary to King's vision, it is only through judgments of
"skin" and other bodily features that the ethical "content" of subjects can be recognized.
--Dust jacket flap
Sujet(s) : Morale sociale
Racisme -- Aspect moral
Discrimination raciale
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190280970. - ISBN 0190280972
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb452258292
Notice n° :
FRBNF45225829
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