LEADER 04767nam 22005411 450 001 9910172208903321 005 20230421054906.0 010 $a90-04-45897-2 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004458970 035 $a(CKB)3390000000031713 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001177785 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11638873 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001177785 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11154451 035 $a(PQKB)10420323 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00018507 035 $a(OCoLC)606981822 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004458970 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000031713 100 $a20201027d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Ontology of Prejudice /$fJon Mills, Janusz A. Polanowski 210 1$aLeiden; $aBoston :$cBRILL,$d1997. 215 $a1 online resource (40 pages) 225 1 $aValue Inquiry Book Series ;$v58 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a90-420-0295-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aGeorge David MILLER: Foreword -- John LACHS: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE The Ontology of Prejudice -- 1 Prejudice Redefined -- 2 The Universal A Priori Nature of Prejudice -- 3 From Thought to Desire -- 4 The Unconscious Organization of Prejudice -- 5 Selfhood and Identification -- 6 The Dialectic of Identity -- 7 Is Racism Predisposed? TWO The Phenomenology of Prejudice -- 1 Prejudice as Subjectivity -- 2 The Illogic of Prejudice -- 3 Prejudice in the Mode of Racial Identity -- 4 Black Identity as Bad Faith -- 5 White Identity as Bad Faith -- 6 The Dialectical Dilemma of Racial Identity -- THREE The Search for Authenticity -- 1 Dasein und Fallenness -- 2 Dasein in Bad Faith -- 3 The False Self -- 4 The Call of Conscience -- FOUR Dialectical Ethics -- 1 The Prejudicial Character of Ethics -- 2 Reformulation of Hegel's Ethical Thought -- 3 Hegel's Logic of the Dialectic -- 4 Hegel's Dialectical Method -- 5 The Operations of Thinking -- 6 The Dialectic of Being -- 7 The Essence of the Dialectic -- 8 Conceptual Understanding -- 8 Prejudice as Determinate Negativity -- FIVE Ethics in Process -- 1 Process Dialectics -- 2 Relative Absolutism -- 3 Functional Objectivity -- 4 Absolute Relativism -- 5 Ethical Subjectivism -- 6 The Polarization of Ethical Valuation -- 7 The Aufheben of Relativism and Absolutism -- SIX The Metaphysics of Morals -- 1 Metaphysics as Ethical Process -- 2 Proces Reality -- 3 Cosmological Freedom -- 4 Before Good and Evil -- 5 Toward the Sublime -- Works Cited -- About the Authors -- Index. 330 $aThis book offers a bold and controversial new thesis regarding the nature of prejudice. The authors' central claim is that prejudice is not simply learned, rather it is predisposed in all human beings and is thus the foundation for ethical valuation. They aim to destroy the illusion that prejudice is merely the result of learned beliefs, socially conditioned attitudes, or pathological states of development. Contrary to traditional accounts, prejudice itself is not a negative attribute of human nature, rather it is the necessary precondition for the self and civilization to emerge. Defined as the preferential self-expression of valuation, prejudice gives rise to greater existential complexities and novelties that elevate selfhood and society to higher states of ethical realization. Rather than offer another contribution that highlights the destructive nature of prejudice, Mills and Polanowski address the ontological, psychological, and dialectical origins of prejudice as it manifests itself in the process of selfhood and culture. They provide an original conceptualization of the phenomenology of prejudice and its dialectical instantiation in the ontology of the individual, worldhood, and the very structures of subjectivity. As a unique synthesis of psychoanalysis, Hegelian idealism, Heideggerian existential ontology, and Whiteheadian process philosophy, prejudice is the indispensable ground for humanity to actualize its highest potentiality-for-Being. The striking result is (1) a revolutionary theory of human nature, (2) a new ethical system, and (3) the elevation of dialectical ethics to the domain of metaphysics. 410 0$aValue Inquiry Book Series ;$v58. 606 $aEthics & Moral Philosophy 606 $aPrejudices 615 0$aEthics & Moral Philosophy. 615 0$aPrejudices. 676 $a303.385 700 $aMills$b Jon$0857674 702 $aPolanowski$b Janusz A. 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910172208903321 996 $aThe Ontology of Prejudice$92530842 997 $aUNINA