Midterm Pt. 1 Definitions

Question 1

Racialism

Answer 1

Kant’s belief in the existence of human races

Question 2

Polygenism

Answer 2

human species having several origins

Question 3

Monogenism

Answer 3

human species having one origin

Question 4

Systematics

Answer 4

classifying and biological naming living things as individuals and groups in relation to one another

Question 5

Eugenics

Answer 5

the regulation of who can have children and with whom this improves the quality of humanity

Question 6

Philosophy of Race

Answer 6

descriptive and normative philosophical inquiry into racial differences and injustice related to them

Question 7

Egalitarianism

Answer 7

view that human beings are equal in important ways

Question 8

Cosmopolitanism

Answer 8

a view on other groups and individuals that are tolerant of personal and cultural differences

not restricted by political borders, language, morals, beliefs, or customs

Question 9

Intellectual History

Answer 9

history of ideas, chronological accounts of major thinkers and their intellectual influences