Early race theorists justified domination by a mind-versus-body hierarchy

Evidence

François Bernier posed the notion of two human souls: one hereditary, sensitive, nonrational, and animal-like; the other God-given, spiritual, and rational. “Those who excel in the powers of the mind … [should] command those who only excel in brute force,” Bernier concluded, “just as the soul governs the body, and man rules animals.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 141

Categorization

• XREF: The rational-soul-governs-body justification foreshadows the same trope in white supremacist argumentation that Kendi’ll later show repurposed in assimilationist thought; also echoes Aristotle’s natural slavery argument Kendi likely covers. — connects to: Domination falsely separated scientific reason from aesthetic reason — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 805; Sexism, racism, and anthropocentrism all share a value-hierarchized logic of domination — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 322; the MOC “The Wound of the Label: When Knowing Someone Becomes a Way of Erasing Them”