PHIL-240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: American Indian Boarding Schools, Simon Pokagon, World'S Columbian Exposition
3 Feb 2018
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Evolution and culture (apwk, ch 3: the imported philosophical outlook of evolution as a principle lead to further racism, segregation and colonial style behaviours. The essay examines the theme of evolution but in a social lens, and the european outlook that autonomy and individualism are valuable. Eg the kantian ideal of autonomy means that one defers to own laws for morality utmost freedom in following the universal principle which one also subjectively affirms. In this case, the subject and the social realms are separate; integrated namely in social contract theory: the individual gives up some things to serve larger self-interests of higher precedent (ie survival) European morality often refers to the state of nature mythology (hobbes); in all variations of the story, individuals recognize their own interests are best served by handing over some power to an authority figure rational decision making made by.
