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"I'm Not a Racist, But...": The Moral Quandary of Racereviewed by Walter Feinberg - 2003 Title: "I'm Not a Racist, But...": The Moral Quandary of Race Author(s): Lawrence Blum
Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca ISBN: 0801438691, Pages: 245, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com Moral terms have a way of migrating from one domain to another.
Consider, for example, the way in which the term holocaust has been
appropriated by opponents of abortion as well as by extreme animal
rights groups. A term coined to refer to the intentional,
systematic and collective destruction of Jews by Nazis is now used
to condemn an individual woman’s decision to end a pregnancy
and a consumer’s decision to eat meat. The appropriation is
poignant precisely because the Nazi slaughter of Jews is, with the
exceptions of a few lunatics, universally condemned. If the
appropriation is accepted then moral arguments about the worth of a
fetus or an animal compared to that of a fully formed human being
are short-circuited.
There are, however, legitimate advantages that can be gained
from appropriating moral terms. Moral concepts may undergo
reasonable change as a result of new understandings, and concepts
invented as a result of one situation can be productively loosened
from their original mooring to... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Walter Feinberg
The University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana E-mail Author WALTER FEINBERG is Professor of Philosophy of Education at the College of Education, The University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. Feinberg's scholarship focuses on the relationship between democracy, work and education.
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