POL381H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: White Supremacy, Political Philosophy, New Zealand National Football Team
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Race, identity & political thought i (the racial. White supremacy not seen as a political system. Philosophy has remained remarkably untouched by debates of ethnicity and inclusion. Philosophical work done by blacks tends to reaffirm existing white rhetoric and or focus heavily on affirmative action for blacks. Need to challenge assumptions of white political philosophy. Recognition that racism is a global political system. Social contract is really between the people who count (white people) Become a normative tool --> elicit intuitions about justice. Explains the actual genesis of society, the way it is structured. The racial contract enables us to engage with mainstream western political theory to bring in race. Racial contract is closer to reality than current western theories that treat the world as raceless. Ideal social contract has been central concept of western political theory for understanding and evaluating the social world. Lack of appropriate concepts can hinder learning, interfere with memory, block inferences, obstruct explanation, perpetuate problems.
