as it has been used in the West, since at least 1763, is an artificial one.
It is based, in part at least, on what one might call an enlightenment notion of man, but it goes even further back than that intellectually.
What do I mean by this, then?
Am I affirming, for instance, something like what Randall Collins said, somewhere in The Sociology of Philosophies, when he asserted that we are all one under the skin, that the concept itself of race is artificial in this sense, that we are all homo sapiens, one species, so to speak?
No, that is not at all what I am getting at here.
It is something a little more complicated than that.
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