PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Political Philosophy
22 Feb 2018
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1b03 lect. nov 9 charles mills - racial contract. Contract shows there is an agreement among whites where non-whites didn"t show up as matter. Weren"t persons before the law, no rights. Mills thinks this is a cultivated silence. As a society we haven"t thought about race and liberalism. Do we think in terms of race as real. Easy to say when one hasn"t faced racial comments if reality of race hasn"t affected ones life. Cultivated silence > mills says if we break that science and talk about race and liberalism, we see race everywhere. Mills calls kant the rst scienti c racist. Mills says liberalism has relied on racism to pro t and grow ideal v. non ideal theory. Mills thinks it is between ideal and non ideal. Ideal theory asks what justice demands in a perfectly just society. Non ideal asks what justice demands in a society with a history of injustice.
