JWST 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Petrus Camper, Christoph Meiners, Immanuel Kant
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Racial ideologies and theories were not an exclusively. The third reich became the first state in world history whose practice was racism. There were different races but they belonged to a single genus because they constantly produce fruitful children with one another, regardless of the great varieties which can be otherwise be found in their form according to. People assumed that physical and psychological differences between individual and races were an indication of their relative worth and then they went on to construct a hierarchy from this information. Pieter camper measured facial angles of members of different races in order to categorize them according to corporal stature and beauty. Christoph meiners categorized people according to their beauty and ugliness, fair people were superior to all others in terms of beauty and intellectual achievements. Darker coloured peoples were ugly and semi-civilized. The complexions of the various human races reflected their degree of inner illumination.
