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The Ontology Of Prejudice(Value Inquiry Book Series 58) by Jon Mills; Janusz A. Polanowski is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book offers a bold and controversial new thesis regarding the nature of prejudice. The authors' central claim is that prejudice is not simply learned, rather it is predisposed in all human beings and is thus the foundation for ethical valuation. They aim to destroy the illusion that prejudice is merely the result of learned beliefs, socially conditioned attitudes, or pathological states of development. Contrary to traditional accounts, prejudice itself is not a negative attribute of human nature, rather it is the necessary precondition for the self and civilization to emerge. Defined as the preferential self-expression of valuation, prejudice gives rise to greater existential complexities and novelties that elevate selfhood and society to higher states of ethical realization. Rather than offer another contribution that highlights the destructive nature of prejudice, Mills and Polanowski address the ontological, psychological, and dialectical origins of prejudice as it manifests itself in the process of selfhood and culture. They provide an original conceptualization of the phenomenology of prejudice and its dialectical instantiation in the ontology of the individual, worldhood

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Author

Jon Mills; Janusz A. Polanowski

Publisher

Atlanta, GA : Rodopi

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004458970

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Sociology, Social_sciences