‘In the Human Heart’

Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association ◽

10.5840/acpaproc201892113 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 92 ◽

pp. 301-320

Author(s):

Gaston G. LeNotre ◽

Keyword(s):

Human Heart ◽

Social Reality ◽

Thomas Aquinas ◽

Race And Racism ◽

Object A ◽

Individual Account ◽

Philosophy Of Race ◽

Biological Differences ◽

Individual Accounts

A premodern philosophy of race and racism in Thomas Aquinas resolves some seeming oppositions between the three most current theories of race. Thomas’s generational account of race is primary. It affirms the racial naturalist view that there are biological differences between people, and some of which stem from a characteristic genotype and geography. Thomas’s individual account of race is secondary but nevertheless a necessary clarification of the generational account. It affirms the racial skeptic view that these racial characteristic properties are individual properties, not essential or specific properties, and as such cannot lead to a definite, essential being that is a ‘race.’ Thomas’s intersubjective account of race is tertiary, insofar as it presumes the generational and individual accounts, and yet crucially explains a peculiar social reality. It affirms the racial constructionist view that the intention by which we understand the notion of race is a socially constituted object, a mind-dependent reality informed by experience.

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Social Security Individual Accounts in China: Toward Sustainability in Individual Account Financing

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su6085049 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 6 (8) ◽

pp. 5049-5064 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Tianhong Chen ◽

John Turner

Keyword(s):

Social Security ◽

Individual Account ◽

Individual Accounts

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From Philosophy of Race to Antiracist Politics: On Rorty's Approach to Race and Racism

Philosophy in the Contemporary World ◽

10.5840/pcw201421214 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 52-60

Author(s):

David Alexander Craig ◽

Keyword(s):

Race And Racism ◽

Philosophy Of Race

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Anancyism and the Dialectics of an Africana Feminist Ethnophilosophy: Sandra Jackson‐Opoku's The River Where Blood Is Born

Hypatia ◽

10.1111/hypa.12054 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 164-181

Author(s):

Laura Gillman

Keyword(s):

Black Women ◽

Women Of Color ◽

Social Reality ◽

Feminist Philosophy ◽

Teleological Explanation ◽

Female Protagonists ◽

Philosophy Of Race ◽

Feminist Thought ◽

Black Feminisms

Although intersectionality has been widely disseminated across the disciplines as a tool to center women of color's developed perspectives on social reality, it has been notably absent in the scholarship of feminist philosophy and philosophy of race. I first examine the causes and processes of the exclusions of women of color feminist thought more generally, and of intersectionality in particular. Then, focusing attention on Black feminisms, I read Sandra Jackson‐Opoku's 1997 novel, The River Where Blood Is Born, with and against Paget Henry's Africana ethnophilosophy. I model an interdisciplinary, intersectional approach to Henry's ethnophilosophy, broadening its philosophical scope by historicizing the liminality that characterizes the realities of many diasporic Black women. I also develop an interpretation of the female protagonists to suggest how many Black women within different historical contexts develop practices to recover African symbolic and discursive registers as a means to claim their subjectivities. Additionally, I challenge Henry's teleological explanation for an increasingly secular Africana philosophical identity.

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Critical Philosophy of Race

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199668779.013.15 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Charles W. Mills

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

White Supremacy ◽

Standpoint Theory ◽

Racial Justice ◽

Race And Racism ◽

Critical Philosophy ◽

Philosophy Of Race ◽

Structures Of Feeling ◽

History Of

This article tries to provide a genealogy for, and a characterization of, “critical philosophy of race,” which has only recently begun to gain formal recognition as a subject within the discipline. After discussing the contested periodization of race and racism, the author turns to the related question of whether they have affected the history of Western philosophy from the classical epoch to modernity. Then he reviews contemporary scholarship in critical philosophy of race, looking at standard divisions of the field: metaphysics (the metaphysics of race); epistemology (social epistemology, standpoint theory, and “whiteness”); aesthetics (race and structures of feeling, racism and anti-racism in works of art); ethics (the moral challenges of slavery, white supremacy, and their ongoing legacy); social and political philosophy (competing analyses of racism as a concept, competing etiologies of racism as a reality, racial domination and racial justice); and existentialism, phenomenology, and pragmatism (the lived experience of race).

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Reconstruction of Objects from their Projections Using Orthogonal Functions

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100071788 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 31 ◽

pp. 268-269

Author(s):

Elrnar Zeitler

Keyword(s):

Unit Area ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

One Dimension ◽

Spatial Density ◽

Dimensional Representation ◽

Orthogonal Functions ◽

Object A ◽

Plane Normal ◽

Dimensional Object ◽

Spatial Density Distribution

Considering any finite three-dimensional object, a “projection” is here defined as a two-dimensional representation of the object's mass per unit area on a plane normal to a given projection axis, here taken as they-axis. Since the object can be seen as being built from parallel, thin slices, the relation between object structure and its projection can be reduced by one dimension. It is assumed that an electron microscope equipped with a tilting stage records the projectionWhere the object has a spatial density distribution p(r,ϕ) within a limiting radius taken to be unity, and the stage is tilted by an angle 9 with respect to the x-axis of the recording plane.

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