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tern intellectuals, including John Stuart Mill, Milton Fried.Some American intellectual traditions, although pristine in appearance, are racist at their core.? This book reveals the racism inherent in those Platonist and Enlightenment moral traditions that motivate much contemporary rhetoric. Part O

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Book 2018tonist and Enlightenment moral traditions that motivate much contemporary rhetoric. Part One contains five chapters of substantial critique, while Part Two contains four chapters of constructive suggestion explaining how indigenous American traditions of thought about morality avoid the racism of co

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Western Justiceppears, for example, in our respect for characters regardless of their intellectual ability; Forrest Gump is the prominent example here. The chapter concludes by raising questions about Plato’s account of justice in the context of our current needs for justice in racially freighted confrontations like that between Michael Brown and Darren Wilson.

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Some Contemporariesh from realizing their continuity with those earlier—and pragmatist—traditions. This chapter concludes with comments about Coates’s reflections about reparations as he presents them in his well-known . essay.

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Prologue, automobile illustrates. Likewise, moral ideas have origins equally significant for their content, as does the idea of justice. Our traditional European ideas of justice include the foundations of slavery and genocide. Only indigenous ideas of justice avoid those foundations.

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Western Justicect for authorities, even though our authorities are not (as Plato would prefer) an intellectual elite. I return to the Michael Brown/Darren Wilson confrontation and try to find some analogue of the respect for authority that pervades our culture in their confrontation. I then give a brief account of