John Locke And The Native Americans

Author : Nagamitsu Miura
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443854306

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John Locke and the Native Americans by Nagamitsu Miura Pdf

Since the 1990s, the relation between liberalism and colonialism has been one of the most important issues in Locke studies and also in the field of modern political thought. This present work is a unique contribution to discussion of this issue in that it elucidates Locke’s concept of the law of nature and his view of war. Locke’s law of nature includes, despite its ostensible universal validity, some particular rules which favour the rights of a European form of political society and individualistic land-acquisition at the sacrifice of native traditional land-rights and subsistence. Concerning wars between settlers and the natives, Locke’s concept of “punishment” in state of nature allows the militarily superior side to make a war with the inferior in disregard for the latter’s claim and nevertheless, after winning victory, proclaim its own just cause of war. By putting Locke’s discourse on colonization and war in the context of contemporary relations between English colonists and the natives, this book makes clear that the expansive element of his theory of property actually overbalanced his rule of limitation of property according to equitableness and that it, after all, undermines the general principles of freedom and equality of all in his law of nature.

Author : Barbara Arneil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198279671

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John Locke and America by Barbara Arneil Pdf

This treatise offers an original interpretation of Locke's doctrine of property, a full account of his writings and activities in relation to the Earl of Shaftesbury, and a new interpretation of Locke's lasting influence on American political thought.

Author : Naomi Zack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190236953

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race by Naomi Zack Pdf

"The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race provides up-to-date explanation and analyses by leading scholars in African American philosophy and philosophy of race. Fifty-one original essays cover major topics from intellectual history to contemporary social controversies in this emerging philosophical subfield that supports demographic inclusion and emphasizes cultural relevance."--[Source inconnue]

Author : Ann Talbot
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004181151

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"The Great Ocean of Knowledge" by Ann Talbot Pdf

This book explores the way in which, working within the investigative tradition associated with the Royal Society, the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) used travellers' reports to develop a form of comparative social anthropology which was to inform his major philosophical works.

Author : Thomas M. Norton-Smith
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438431338

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The Dance of Person and Place by Thomas M. Norton-Smith Pdf

Uses the concept of “world-making” to provide an introduction to American Indian philosophy. Ever since first contact with Europeans, American Indian stories about how the world is have been regarded as interesting objects of study, but also as childish and savage, philosophically curious and ethically monstrous. Using the writings of early ethnographers and cultural anthropologists, early narratives told or written by Indians, and scholarly work by contemporary Native writers and philosophers, Shawnee philosopher Thomas M. Norton-Smith develops a rational reconstruction of American Indian philosophy as a dance of person and place. He views Native philosophy through the lens of a culturally sophisticated constructivism grounded in the work of contemporary American analytic philosopher Nelson Goodman, in which descriptions of the world (or “world versions”) satisfying certain criteria construct actual worlds—words make worlds. Ultimately, Norton-Smith argues that the Native ways of organizing experiences with spoken words and other performances construct real worlds as robustly as their Western counterparts, and, in so doing, he helps to bridge the chasm between Western and American Indian philosophical traditions. “ a deft and self-aware exemplification of the task of cross-cultural comparison The writing is accessible and shows a deft and helpful interplay between abstract language and concrete illustrative material.” — The Pluralist “Norton-Smith does a good job illustrating how worlds are created through language and how language itself contains philosophy.” — H-Net Reviews (H-Environment) “ Norton-Smith offers an insightful discussion of Native American epistemological concepts This book is an excellent exercise for all philosophy students as an expansion of worldviews and an examination of Western epistemological foundations and biases. It also offers an insightful discussion of indigenous philosophy for both philosophy and indigenous scholars Highly recommended.” ? CHOICE “The author opens a unique and exciting avenue for philosophical discourse by demonstrating a method of inquiry that provides a new way of interpreting Native thinking, a method that not only promotes Native philosophical systems but allows for greater communication between Western and Native philosophers.” — Lorraine Mayer, author of Cries from a Métis Heart “Challenging and provocative, this book is a great step forward in the conversation of academic Indigenous philosophy.” — Brian Yazzie Burkhart, Pitzer College

Author : Jennifer L. McMahon,B. Steve Csaki
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813173856

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The Philosophy of the Western by Jennifer L. McMahon,B. Steve Csaki Pdf

The western is arguably the most iconic and influential genre in American cinema. The solitude of the lone rider, the loyalty of his horse, and the unspoken code of the West render the genre popular yet lead it to offer a view of America's history that is sometimes inaccurate. For many, the western embodies America and its values. In recent years, scholars had declared the western genre dead, but a steady resurgence of western themes in literature, film, and television has reestablished the genre as one of the most important. In The Philosophy of the Western, editors Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki examine philosophical themes in the western genre. Investigating subjects of nature, ethics, identity, gender, environmentalism, and animal rights, the essays draw from a wide range of westerns including the recent popular and critical successes Unforgiven (1992), All the Pretty Horses (2000), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and No Country for Old Men (2007), as well as literature and television serials such as Deadwood. The Philosophy of the Western reveals the influence of the western on the American psyche, filling a void in the current scholarship of the genre.

Author : Allan Greer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107160644

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Property and Dispossession by Allan Greer Pdf

Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Liberty
ISBN : 7500426518

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Two Treatises of Government by John Locke Pdf

Author : Carter Jones Meyer,Diana Royer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816521484

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Selling the Indian by Carter Jones Meyer,Diana Royer Pdf

A collection of essays consider the selling of American Indian culture and how it affects the Native community, showing how appropriation of American Indian cultures have been persistent practices of American society over the last century, constituting a form of cultural imperialism that could contribute to the destruction of American Indian culture and identity.

Author : Gary Clayton Anderson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806145082

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Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian by Gary Clayton Anderson Pdf

Mention “ethnic cleansing” and most Americans are likely to think of “sectarian” or “tribal” conflict in some far-off locale plagued by unstable or corrupt government. According to historian Gary Clayton Anderson, however, the United States has its own legacy of ethnic cleansing, and it involves American Indians. In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian, Anderson uses ethnic cleansing as an analytical tool to challenge the alluring idea that Anglo-American colonialism in the New World constituted genocide. Beginning with the era of European conquest, Anderson employs definitions of ethnic cleansing developed by the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to reassess key moments in the Anglo-American dispossession of American Indians. Euro-Americans’ extensive use of violence against Native peoples is well documented. Yet Anderson argues that the inevitable goal of colonialism and U.S. Indian policy was not to exterminate a population, but to obtain land and resources from the Native peoples recognized as having legitimate possession. The clashes between Indians, settlers, and colonial and U.S. governments, and subsequent dispossession and forcible migration of Natives, fit the modern definition of ethnic cleansing. To support the case for ethnic cleansing over genocide, Anderson begins with English conquerors’ desire to push Native peoples to the margin of settlement, a violent project restrained by the Enlightenment belief that all humans possess a “natural right” to life. Ethnic cleansing comes into greater analytical focus as Anderson engages every major period of British and U.S. Indian policy, especially armed conflict on the American frontier where government soldiers and citizen militias alike committed acts that would be considered war crimes today. Drawing on a lifetime of research and thought about U.S.-Indian relations, Anderson analyzes the Jacksonian “Removal” policy, the gold rush in California, the dispossession of Oregon Natives, boarding schools and other “benevolent” forms of ethnic cleansing, and land allotment. Although not amounting to genocide, ethnic cleansing nevertheless encompassed a host of actions that would be deemed criminal today, all of which had long-lasting consequences for Native peoples.

Author : Julie K. Ward,Tommy L. Lott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780470752043

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Philosophers on Race by Julie K. Ward,Tommy L. Lott Pdf

Philosophers on Race adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining the historical roots of the concept in the works of major Western philosophers.

Author : Jeffrey R. Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478816

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In the Shadow of Leviathan by Jeffrey R. Collins Pdf

Revolutionises our understanding of Hobbes's influence over Locke and their roles within the history of religious freedom and liberalism.

Author : Claudio Saunt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393609851

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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt Pdf

Winner of the 2021 Bancroft Prize and the 2021 Ridenhour Book Prize Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction Named a Top Ten Best Book of 2020 by the Washington Post and Publishers Weekly and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2020 A masterful and unsettling history of “Indian Removal,” the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands. In May 1830, the United States launched an unprecedented campaign to expel 80,000 Native Americans from their eastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River. In a firestorm of fraud and violence, thousands of Native Americans lost their lives, and thousands more lost their farms and possessions. The operation soon devolved into an unofficial policy of extermination, enabled by US officials, southern planters, and northern speculators. Hailed for its searing insight, Unworthy Republic transforms our understanding of this pivotal period in American history.

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1802
Category : Intellect
ISBN : OXFORD:590610995

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The Conduct of the Understanding by John Locke Pdf

Author : Ian Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521638720

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The Mind of John Locke by Ian Harris Pdf

John Locke (1632-1704) is a central figure in the history of thought, and in liberal doctrine especially. This major study brings a range of his wider views to bear upon his political theory. Every political theorist has a vision, a view about the basic features of life and society, as well as technique which mediates this into propositions about politics. Locke's vision spanned questions concerning Christian worship, ethics, political economy, medicine, the human understanding, revealed theology and education. This study shows how the character of these wider concerns informed Two Treatises of Government, especially in respect of a view of divine teleology, and situated a distinctive view of politics which treated the state and the church in parallel terms.