23 | How Does a Democracy Keep its Character? Lessons from the Black Radical Tradition w/ Prof. Melvin Rogers
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Character of the Nation
Many of these thinkers want to talk about character at the level of the nation, and the way in which the nation's sensibilities dispositions shape the members that comprise the polity. And so when the nation commits the harm against black people, the harm is done in in your name, because you're a member of the polity,. In bearing your mark, it reflects or its meant to reflect the tendencies in the culture that you yourself are compliciti i think baldwin is trying to get us to be outraged by just this picture of ourselves.
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