Bernard R Boxill
Biographic Data
| ID | 1136414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard R Boxill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard R |
| FAMILY NAME | Boxill |
| SIGNATURE | BOXILL B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Debating African American Political Thought
W.E.B. DuBois and William James on Double Consciousness
Separation or Assimilation
Things one may not do in offence one may do in defence—and not thereby acquiesce in offence. And one could reason similarly in the case of racial segregation. In response to white segregation laws, the black community could conceivably have imposed its own segregation laws. And in Senegal and Martinique the poets and statesmen Leopold Sedar Senghor and Aimé Cesaire gave the theory powerful expression in the philosophy of Negritude, which favorabl…
Servility and Self-Respect
In “Servility and Self-Respect” Tom Hill considers three individuals – Uncle Tom, the Self-Deprecator, and the Deferential Wife – whose behaviour is described as being servile and for that reason, morally defective. The defect in question, as characterized by Hill, is either a failure to recognize one’s moral rights or a failure to appreciate the true worth of those rights. This chapter challenge Hill’s suggestion that the behaviour of the three …
The Responsibility of the Oppressed to Resist Their Own Oppression
Integration and equality
Some Afro‐American thinkers maintain that blacks will best serve their interests if they integrate with whites wherever they can. Others argue the case for separation, both as a means and as an end. This essay considers the arguments for integration and separation from the perspective of equality. Egalitarians tend to believe that their principles are capable of settling most social and political disputes. This is shown to be not true for the deb…
Les Noirs et la justice sociale aux Etats-Unis
Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family
Three common assumptions of both liberal theory and political debate are the autonomy of the family, the principle of merit, and equality of life chances. Fishkin argues that even under the best conditions, commitment to any two of these principles precludes the third
Sexual Blindness and Sexual Equality
The Morality of Reparation
Debating African American Political Thought
Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family
Three common assumptions of both liberal theory and political debate are the autonomy of the family, the principle of merit, and equality of life chances. Fishkin argues that even under the best conditions, commitment to any two of these principles precludes the third
The Morality of Reparation
Sexual Blindness and Sexual Equality
Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family
Three common assumptions of both liberal theory and political debate are the autonomy of the family, the principle of merit, and equality of life chances. Fishkin argues that even under the best conditions, commitment to any two of these principles precludes the third
Les Noirs et la justice sociale aux Etats-Unis
Integration and equality
Some Afro‐American thinkers maintain that blacks will best serve their interests if they integrate with whites wherever they can. Others argue the case for separation, both as a means and as an end. This essay considers the arguments for integration and separation from the perspective of equality. Egalitarians tend to believe that their principles are capable of settling most social and political disputes. This is shown to be not true for the deb…
The Responsibility of the Oppressed to Resist Their Own Oppression
Servility and Self-Respect
In “Servility and Self-Respect” Tom Hill considers three individuals – Uncle Tom, the Self-Deprecator, and the Deferential Wife – whose behaviour is described as being servile and for that reason, morally defective. The defect in question, as characterized by Hill, is either a failure to recognize one’s moral rights or a failure to appreciate the true worth of those rights. This chapter challenge Hill’s suggestion that the behaviour of the three …
Separation or Assimilation
Things one may not do in offence one may do in defence—and not thereby acquiesce in offence. And one could reason similarly in the case of racial segregation. In response to white segregation laws, the black community could conceivably have imposed its own segregation laws. And in Senegal and Martinique the poets and statesmen Leopold Sedar Senghor and Aimé Cesaire gave the theory powerful expression in the philosophy of Negritude, which favorabl…
W.E.B. DuBois and William James on Double Consciousness
Debating African American Political Thought
Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Applied philosophy (2 works) · Citation (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)