Kant differed from Hume by holding African mental limits to be environmental

Evidence

Kant is not saying, like Hume, that Africans are mentally poor by nature. He seems to suggest that, given due diligence, Africans can also become creative and innovators. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 135

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Charts a real philosophical distinction between Hume’s natural and Kant’s conditional racialism.

Related

• Kant allowed Africans capability through cultivation though Hume did not (similarity 0.90)
• Hume and Kant denied Africans all capacity for high achievement (similarity 0.86)
• Kant grounded moral incapacity claims in skin color as physical evidence. (similarity 0.83)
• Hume rejected environmental explanations for African intellectual stagnation (similarity 0.82)
• Hume attributed African intellectual stagnation to nature, not to slavery’s conditions. (similarity 0.80)
• Hume and Kant supplied the racial judgments Tempels opposed. (similarity 0.80)
• Kant’s racial taxonomy denied moral capacities to non-Europeans (similarity 0.78)

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