Tag: Biopolitics
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Biopolitics and Eugenics: Thoughts on Costin Alamariu’s Selective Breeding
INTRODUCTION I have presented in some recent articles a philosophical and historical argument that ancient Greek and Roman thought, particularly through REPUBLICANISM and Stoicism, undermines any notion of inherent racial or biological hierarchies. It emphasizes universal reason (LOGOS), cultural malleability, civic virtue, and cosmopolitanism as the core of its classical ideals, and I use Aristotle,…
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Classical Republicanism and Stoicism refutes Racial Hierarchies
Classical Republicanism, as articulated in ancient Greek and Roman political philosophy emphasizes the pursuit of the common good for the CIVITAS through civic virtue, balanced governance, and participation in public life, without grounding these ideals in biological or racial hierarchies as understood in modern terms. Far from being inherently racist, its foundational texts reveal a…
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Biopolitics, Eugenics, and State Racism in Ancient Philosophy | Mika Ojakangas
Main Grahn-Wilder of the ORT-project interviews Prof. Mika Ojakangas of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland in a talk about the origins of State Racism. It serves the same purpose as Slavery and the Limits of Democracy in the Early Republic, Leslie Alexander. “In episode 3, Professor Mika Ojakangas (University of Jyväskylä) discusses his book On…