CLAS 320gmp Midterm: Clas 320 midterm
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Aeschylus - persians and suppliant maidens: 20-23. Reification and ranking are the two major fallacies of morton"s work and biological determinism. The imaginative process that intelligence is present. The brain is the stable object that gives us knowledge and emotions. Use of numbers to rank people based on results from craniometry. Ranking: intelligence can be ranked; the idea of placing things in a specific order. Morton uses this to prove his point - saying that it is biologically determined that certain peoples are not smart or cannot work or be thought of the way that we are. Science cannot always be objective even if it is trying to be, will always have some degree of influence from culture. Morton didn"t consciously fraud his findings and despite its in-accurateness people believed it because of the prejudices that already existed so it made it easy to believe. Monogenism: origin from a single source, human races are a product of degeneration from.
