{"product_id":"slavery-in-early-modern-philosophy-1765-1800-essential-readings-9780197833568","title":"Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1765-1800: Essential Readings","description":"This volume comprises forty-five philosophical texts about slavery that were composed in Europe and America between 1765 and 1800. The texts, selected and in some cases newly translated by Julia Jorati, discuss various aspects of slavery, and from many different perspectives. Written by enslaved and formerly enslaved antislavery authors, their allies, and a few of their opponents, they demonstrate that the debate about slavery in the late eighteenth century, during the first major transnational abolitionist movement, was remarkably multifaceted and philosophically sophisticated. Some authors base their arguments on the moral principles embraced by revolutionaries in France and America, such as the principle that all men have an inalienable right to liberty; others draw on different moral frameworks such as utilitarianism, natural law theory, social contract theory, and Biblical ethics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn addition to arguments for and against the moral permissibility of transatlantic slavery, the texts in \u003cem\u003eSlavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1765-1800\u003c\/em\u003e also examine other related philosophical issues, such as complicity, reparations, racial bias, the right to rebel, the effects of enslavement on the human mind, and the epistemic dimensions of oppression. This volume serves as a companion to Jorati's\u003cem\u003e Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500-1765: Essential Readings\u003c\/em\u003e and will interest scholars and students seeking a deeper understanding of these underexamined debates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulia Jorati \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She specializes in early modern philosophy with a particular focus on metaphysics, political philosophy, and ethics. In addition to numerous articles about Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and other early modern philosophers, she has authored the books Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the \u003cem\u003eSixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford 2024), \u003cem\u003eSlavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century \u003c\/em\u003e(Oxford 2024), and \u003cem\u003eLeibniz on Causation and Agenc\u003c\/em\u003ey (Cambridge 2017). She has also edited the companion volume to this anthology, \u003cem\u003e Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500-1765: Essential Readings\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52158619844882,"sku":"9780197833568","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_766d6e37-f913-4a43-937b-8358fe9e4b3a.jpg?v=1774970155","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/slavery-in-early-modern-philosophy-1765-1800-essential-readings-9780197833568","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}