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Tag: Eugenics

  • Biopolitics and Eugenics: Thoughts on Costin Alamariu’s Selective Breeding

    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,…

  • Biopolitics, Eugenics, and State Racism in Ancient Philosophy | Mika Ojakangas

    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…