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Record Nr.

UNINA9910624305603321

Autore

Barnes Corey L.

Titolo

Alain Locke on the theoretical foundations for a just and successful peace / / Corey L. Barnes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

9783031150043

9783031150036

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 pages)

Collana

African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora

Disciplina

405

Soggetti

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Locke and Me -- Locke and Cosmopolitanism -- On Method -- Chapter Overview -- Chapter 2: One Cosmopolitan World, or None -- Introduction -- Thick/Thin Moral, Political, Economic, and Cultural Cosmopolitanisms -- Locke's Thick Moral Cosmopolitanism -- Locke's Thin Political Cosmopolitanism -- Locke's Thin Economic Cosmopolitanism -- Locke's Thick Cultural Cosmopolitanism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: A Theory of True Democracy -- Introduction -- Concepts, Conceptions, and Democracy -- On Political Democracy -- On the Value of Political Democracy -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Impediments to True Democracy and a Cosmopolitan World -- Introduction -- On the Origins of Race -- François Bernier, Race, and Liberal and Aesthetic Racism -- Immanuel Kant, Scientific Race, and Scientific Racism -- Johann Blumenbach, Racial Degeneration, and Racist Value -- Arthur de Gobineau, Racial Degeneration, and the Divine Superiority of Whites -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: A Theory of Race for Democracy and Cosmopolitanism -- Introduction -- On the Significance of and Appropriate Starting Point for Understanding Race -- Locke's Critique of Anthropological Theories of Race -- Locke's Sociocultural Theory of Race -- Locke on Racism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: A Theory of Value for Democracy and Cosmopolitanism -- Introduction -- On the Appropriate Starting-Points for Value Theory --



Locke's Critique of Value-Objectivity and Value-Subjectivity -- Locke's Value-Pluralist Theory of Value -- Locke's Value Theory, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Index.