The Ontology of Prejudice /

The Ontology of Prejudice / / Jon Mills, Janusz A. Polanowski.

This 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 prejud...

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Superior document:Value Inquiry Book Series ; 58
VerfasserIn:
Mills, Jon,
Polanowski, Janusz A.,
TeilnehmendeR:
Polanowski, Janusz A.,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 1997.
Year of Publication:1997
Language:English
Series:Value Inquiry Book Series ; 58.
Physical Description:1 online resource (40 pages)
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • George 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.

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