ENGCOMP 3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Part 2 pg102-136: Philosophical Anthropology, Miscegenation, Cultural Assimilation
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(a) it is not legitimate to argue from differences in physical characteristics to differences. So far at least as intellectual and moral aptitudes are concerned we ought to speak of. The actual ties of heritage between the individuals of this group, vary with the ancestors. But the physical bond is least and the badge of color relatively unimportant save as a. When they applied a racial label they were identifying people with a shared essence (depends what that shared essence is) African was later changed into negros by white people. The civilization of a . race at any particular moment of time offers no index to its innate or inherited capacities. civilizations where we now speak of races. Pg103 that they have in common with many others : europeans and semites, perhaps mongolians, certainly american indians. badge; the real essence of this kinship is its social heritage of slavery; (race was created in order to justify slavery)
