Kant reproduced Hume’s racial hierarchy in his own writings.

Evidence

In a passage that clearly bears the footprints of Hume, Immanuel Kant, who my students admire as a genius and one of the architects of the modern world, says the following about Africans [I present the passage in full because I do not want to impute my own words in passages with content that has had a tremendous effect on the lives of Africans]: The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the tri- fling. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 131

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Without any apparent sense of irony, Hume wrote, “We are well aware that Mohammedans, wherever found, constitute a difficult, and hitherto a comparatively unfruitful field…They regard themselves as God’s peculiar people, and look with feelings of hatred and contempt upon all opposing religions.”; Kant actually ranked Native Americans above blacks in his racial hierarchy; Hume and Kant supplied the racial judgments Tempels opposed. (+14 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Without any apparent sense of irony, Hume wrote, “We are well aware that Mohammedans, wherever found, constitute a difficult, and hitherto a comparatively unfruitful field…They regard themselves as God’s peculiar people, and look with feelings of hatred and contempt upon all opposing religions.”; Kant actually ranked Native Americans above blacks in his racial hierarchy; Hume and Kant supplied the racial judgments Tempels opposed. (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Kant differed from Hume by holding African mental limits to be environmental #complicates (0.78)
• Kant allowed Africans capability through cultivation though Hume did not #complicates (0.78) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 135