Subjugation and Bondage Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy

by Lott, Tommy L.; Allen, Anita; Boxill, Bernard; Cohen, Joshua; Hare, R M.; Lawson, Bill; Lott, Tommy; McGary, Howard; Moravcsik, Julius; Thomas, Laurence; Uzgalis, William; Ward, Julie; Williams, Bernard; Willett, Cynthia

• ISBN13: 9780847687770
• ISBN10: 0847687775
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-15
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This volume addresses a wide variety of moral concerns regarding slavery as an institutionalized social practice. By considering the slave's critical appropriation of the natural rights doctrine, the ambiguous implications of various notions of consent and liberty are examined. The authors assume that, although slavery is undoubtedly an evil social practice, its moral assessment stands in need of a more nuanced treatment. They address the question of what is wrong with slavery by critically examining, and in some cases endorsing, certain principles derived from communitarianism, paternalism, utilitarianism, and jurisprudence.

Author Biography

Anita L. Allen, Associate Dean and Professor, The Law Center, Georgetown University. Bernard R. Boxill, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Joshua Cohen, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. R. M. Hare, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida. Bill E. Lawson, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University. Tommy L. Lott, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri--St. Louis. Howard McGary, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University. Julius Moravcsik, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University. John Perry, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University. Laurence M. Thomas, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Syracruse University. William Uzgalis, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Oregon State University. Julie K. Ward, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago. Cynthia Willett, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Emory University. Bernard Williams, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of California--Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix	(2)
John Perry
Acknowledgments	xi	(2)
Introduction	xiii
1 Necessary Identities	1	(28)
Bernard Williams
2 Radical Implications of Locke's Moral Theory: The Views of Frederick Douglass	29	(20)
Bernard R. Boxill
3 "... The Same Tyrannical Principle": Locke's Legacy on Slavery	49	(30)
William Uzgalis
4 "The Master's Tools": Abolitionist Arguments of Equiano and Cugoano	79	(20)
Julie K. Ward
5 Early Enlightenment Conceptions of the Rights of Slaves	99	(32)
Tommy L. Lott
6 Locke and the Legal Obligations of Black Americans	131	(20)
Bill E. Lawson
7 The Master-Slave Dialectic: Hegel vs. Douglass	151	(20)
Cynthia Willett
8 Slavery and the Ties that Do Not Bind	171	(16)
Julius Moravcsik
9 Paternalism and Slavery	187	(22)
Howard McGary
10 What Is Wrong with Slavery	209	(20)
R. M. Hare
11 Slavery and Surrogacy	229	(26)
Anita L. Allen
12 American Slavery and the Holocaust: Their Ideologies Compared	255	(26)
Laurence Thomas
13 The Arc of the Moral Universe	281	(48)
Joshua Cohen
Bibliography	329	(10)
Index	339	(12)
Contributors	351