Philosophy of Race, Past and Present

06/28/20 • 44 min

The fourth episode of Dialogos, a Harker Philosophy Club Podcast. Officers Quentin Clark, Sophia Gottfried, and Akshay Manglik discuss how philosophies of race have evolved since the founding of the US. They cover debates between black intellectuals, abolitionism vs. reformism, modern philosophies of race, and more in this episode of the Dialogos podcast. Produced by Akshay Manglik.

Full synopsis of topics discussed (w/ timestamps):

-racism in Western philosophy (0:30)

-antebellum abolitionism (3:09)

-Washington-DuBois debates (6:48)

-phenomenology of Blackness (12:08)

-MLK-Malcolm X debates (13:35)

-present-day debates between abolition and reform (18:45)

-virtue signaling/optical allyship (26:53)

-modern leftist philosophies and their impacts on protests (29:24)

-reflection on past podcasts and race (40:38)

James Baldwin speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnh0pxOTvh8

Ta-Nehisi Coates Letter to His Son: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/tanehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me/397619/

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Full synopsis of topics discussed (w/ timestamps):

-racism in Western philosophy (0:30)

-antebellum abolitionism (3:09)

-Washington-DuBois debates (6:48)

-phenomenology of Blackness (12:08)

-MLK-Malcolm X debates (13:35)

-present-day debates between abolition and reform (18:45)

-virtue signaling/optical allyship (26:53)

-modern leftist philosophies and their impacts on protests (29:24)

-reflection on past podcasts and race (40:38)

James Baldwin speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnh0pxOTvh8

Ta-Nehisi Coates Letter to His Son: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/tanehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me/397619/

Got any suggestions, or wanna appear on the podcast? Email us at [email protected], and make sure to come to our meetings, where we'll build on the discussion in our podcast!

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The third episode of Dialogos, a Harker Philosophy Club Podcast. Officers Quentin Clark, Sophia Gottfried, and Akshay Manglik are joined by Lawrence Zhou to discuss effective altruism and philosophy in college. They cover practicing effective altruism, objections to it, current applications, and more in this episode of the Dialogos podcast. Produced by Akshay Manglik.

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Peter Singer TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diuv3XZQXyc

Singer in the Boston Review: http://bostonreview.net/forum/peter-singer-logic-effective-altruism

Aeon article: https://aeon.co/ideas/let-us-now-stop-praising-famous-men-and-women

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The fifth episode of Dialogos, a Harker Philosophy Club Podcast. Officers Quentin Clark, Sophia Gottfried, and Akshay Manglik discuss philosophical arguments for and against violence, for both individuals and institutions. They cover historical perspectives on violence, civil disobediance, violent protest, and more in this episode of the Dialogos podcast. Produced by Akshay Manglik

Trevor Noah social contract video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4amCfVbA_c

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