The Double Standards of Citizenship and Identity.
B Du Bois dedicate their philosophical writings to support the value of human rights. Both writers believe that through education, these values can be effectively transmitted and true citizens can be created. In For Love of Country?, Nussbaum promotes the rights of all human citizens, saying that there is no legitimate reason for valuing a single or group of individuals over another. She suggests that strong nationality and patriotism are dangerous because the sense of identity that results from them can lead people to disregard the rights of individuals of different identities. She believes that education should create citizens that regard identity as arbitrary and respect the rights of all humans regardless of their differences. Du Bois certainly admires the moral value that Nussbaum portrays in her argument, but his claims in The Souls of Black Folk demonstrate his skeptical opinion of Nussbaum's method of creating citizens. Du Bois believes that to achieve true citizenship, people have to be educated in order to acquaint themselves with their identities and thus be self conscious of who they are in society. Through this education, different groups of people can learn to reconcile their different identities and create a true democracy, as the African Americans and European-white Americans struggled to do in the United States. Du Bois would think that the circumstance Nussbaum portrays could only exist where particular identities don't matter, and this is non existent in today's world. In effect, he would not agree that a loyalty to anything less than the entire human race is dangerous because he believes that individuals must first be loyal and conscious of their particular identities in order to become valuable citizens. .
Nussbaum's underlying claim in For Love or Country is that "one should always behave so as to treat with equal respect the dignity of reason and moral choice in every human being,"" (Nussbaum 8) .
These were the thoughts circulating through my mind each time I picked up Nussbaum's "Cultivating Humanity." ... (Nussbaum 19). ... So in this way, I agree with Nussbaum. ... Nussbaum explains that in normative chauvinism imagination is key. ... Throughout the entire chapter, Nussbaum makes her arguments and thoughts clear to the reader. ...
Although Nussbaum has accumulated a few amount of critics for her more feminist positions in regards to these subjects, Nussbaum also has a number of supporters who agree with a majority of, if not all, the points she makes that will be presented in this paper. First and foremost, the Capabilities Approach is described by Nussbaum as "a counter-theory to challenge . . . entrenched but misguided theories . . . to move policy choice in the right direction" (Nussbaum Preface, Kindle Locations 37-38). ... Nussbaum continues stating that the U.S. ... Many people who criticize Martha Nus...
Washington and WEB Dubois continue to act as politically-charged lightning rods. ... Without Washington there may be Dubois, but not in the sense we know him. ... The individual is where DuBois begins in The Souls of Black Folk. This is the single most important difference in the two narratives - the institution vs. the individual (or collective individuals). ... The commitment to the individual view leads DuBois down a very different path. ...
Jebb begins citing that the main conflict, divine law vs. human law, is the strength in the play. ... The conflict, according to Bowra, built good contrast - the real arrogance of Creon vs. the apparent arrogance of Antigone. ... Nussbaum, the final in this series of critics, gives a rather different insight into Antigone. ... Nussbaum blames her for refusal of vision. ... Despite the common need for the reader to sympathize with Antigone, as Nussbaum says, Antigone and Creon are both unloving, inhuman beings. ...
Dubois thought the main problem of America was the problem of race. ... Dubois thought that a black person could never have just one identity. ... Dubois had a major role in the opposition to Booker T. ... For Dubois, resistance was the way to go in order to gain equality. ... Dubois debated furiously with the pan-Africanist leader of his time Marcus Garvey. ...
Harvard University was DuBois's first choice, but Harvard had high admissions standards which DuBois's high school did not satisfy, and was denied. ... DuBois interviewed some 3,000 families; this was the first time that someone had take scientific approach of studying social problems (DuBois). ... In Souls, DuBois challenged Booker T. ... DuBois believed that without the ballot, citizenship, and higher education in arts and sciences that there could not be any black advances (DuBois). ... The Crisis was the most important national voice for the advancement of black civil rights...
History Comparison Essay The future of the freedman W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. ... Washington was born four years before the civil war had begun, Dubois was born three years after the civil war had come to an end. ... Dubois was not exposed to the daily problems that slaves endured until his early teenage years. Dubois's and Washington's slightly different backgrounds caused them to have different views on the future of freedman in the United States. ... Washington and Dubois were both visionaries who shared the same goal, although they had there own individual ...
DuBois was the only child of Alfred and Mary DuBois. ... DuBois graduated as the first black to graduate from GBHS. ... DuBois attended Fisk College for three years. ... That experience torn DuBois apart. ... DuBois to put it all in just a few pages. ...
