Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Ethnicity and Race
As we discussed in class Tuesday, Herder claims that there is a division of people not a division of race like Kant's argument for race. Therefore, according to Herder, people are divided into categories on basis of their ethnicity, which can further be divided into subcategories of humanity. Hence, if Herder believes that there is only a division of people, why do the people in the one ethnicity have different races? Shouldn't every division of people based ethnicity have a similar race if we think according to Herder claims because he rejected division on basis of race?
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I don't actually think Herder is claiming that there are any divisions at all, including ethnicity. He claims that people are all different and therefore can only become one volk, not a bunch of "races." The only division he claimed worth noting was that of apes and humans.
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