Reza Mosayebi
Biographic Data
| ID | 789295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reza Mosayebi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reza |
| FAMILY NAME | Mosayebi |
| SIGNATURE | MOSAYEBI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ruhr University Bochum |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-8248-8902 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gradated Racism. Moving Between “Ends in Themselves” and “Mere Means”
I reveal a pervasive though often unobtrusive form of racism which merits its own discussion. Gradated racism , as I call it, can co-exist with sophisticated moral views. To elucidate this, I make use of Kant’s race and moral theories, considered together and as equally important. I borrow his dichotomy of “end in itself” and “mere means” and re-conceptualize it. I argue that this helps us to analyze the normative nature of gradated racism proper…
Kant's Metaphysics of Race, Its Distinctiveness, and Its Normativity
Drawing on the contemporary taxonomy of the metaphysics of race, this paper shows that Kant's theory of race occupies a distinct metaphysical position on race. Second, it argues that Kant's metaphysics of race inherently produces racist claims. Contrasting Kant's race theory with other metaphysical positions on race allows us to both understand his theory and its racist aspects better, and to improve the map of metaphysical positions on race. Clo…
Huaping Lu-Adler on Kant’s Relation to Racism
One of the many virtues of Huaping Lu-Adler’s Kant, Race, and Racism is its questioning of the very meaning of “racism” attributed to Kant. Yet more important is Lu-Adler’s own attempt to go beyond the “individualistic” approaches that focus on Kant’s mind or heart behind his philosophical racism. By engaging with some current philosophical accounts of racism, Lu-Adler instead reconceptualizes Kant’s relation, as philosopher-cum-educator, to raci…
Kant on Race Mixing, Subracial Variety, and Progressive Culture
Critical scholarship of Kant's race theory has been mainly focused on his concept of race. This article draws attention to his peculiar conception of "variety" as a subracial category that, restricted to the White race, plays a significant role in providing a diversity that enables progress in culture. The question organizing the article is this: How, on Kant's account, given its defense of radical racial inequality and degradation by race mixing…
Juridical Empowerment: Empowering the Impoverished as Rights-Asserters
The idea of empowerment has gained a significant role in the discourse of poverty. I outline a restricted conception of empowerment inspired by Kant’s idea of rightful honour . According to this conception, empowerment consists in enabling individuals to assert their own human rights ( juridical empowerment ). I apply this conception to impoverished persons and argue that it is crucial to their self-respect, their so-called ‘power-[from-]within,’…
Kant on Race Mixing, Subracial Variety, and Progressive Culture
Critical scholarship of Kant's race theory has been mainly focused on his concept of race. This article draws attention to his peculiar conception of "variety" as a subracial category that, restricted to the White race, plays a significant role in providing a diversity that enables progress in culture. The question organizing the article is this: How, on Kant's account, given its defense of radical racial inequality and degradation by race mixing…
Juridical Empowerment: Empowering the Impoverished as Rights-Asserters
The idea of empowerment has gained a significant role in the discourse of poverty. I outline a restricted conception of empowerment inspired by Kant’s idea of rightful honour . According to this conception, empowerment consists in enabling individuals to assert their own human rights ( juridical empowerment ). I apply this conception to impoverished persons and argue that it is crucial to their self-respect, their so-called ‘power-[from-]within,’…
Kant's Metaphysics of Race, Its Distinctiveness, and Its Normativity
Drawing on the contemporary taxonomy of the metaphysics of race, this paper shows that Kant's theory of race occupies a distinct metaphysical position on race. Second, it argues that Kant's metaphysics of race inherently produces racist claims. Contrasting Kant's race theory with other metaphysical positions on race allows us to both understand his theory and its racist aspects better, and to improve the map of metaphysical positions on race. Clo…
Huaping Lu-Adler on Kant’s Relation to Racism
One of the many virtues of Huaping Lu-Adler’s Kant, Race, and Racism is its questioning of the very meaning of “racism” attributed to Kant. Yet more important is Lu-Adler’s own attempt to go beyond the “individualistic” approaches that focus on Kant’s mind or heart behind his philosophical racism. By engaging with some current philosophical accounts of racism, Lu-Adler instead reconceptualizes Kant’s relation, as philosopher-cum-educator, to raci…
Kant on Race Mixing, Subracial Variety, and Progressive Culture
Critical scholarship of Kant's race theory has been mainly focused on his concept of race. This article draws attention to his peculiar conception of "variety" as a subracial category that, restricted to the White race, plays a significant role in providing a diversity that enables progress in culture. The question organizing the article is this: How, on Kant's account, given its defense of radical racial inequality and degradation by race mixing…
Gradated Racism. Moving Between “Ends in Themselves” and “Mere Means”
I reveal a pervasive though often unobtrusive form of racism which merits its own discussion. Gradated racism , as I call it, can co-exist with sophisticated moral views. To elucidate this, I make use of Kant’s race and moral theories, considered together and as equally important. I borrow his dichotomy of “end in itself” and “mere means” and re-conceptualize it. I argue that this helps us to analyze the normative nature of gradated racism proper…
Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Racism (2 works) · African philosophy (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (1 works)