TMM Annotation
According to Socrates: Rulers, Auxiliaries and Craftsmen
Talks about this idea of being brothers with different frames of gold, brass and iron and how he can convince future generations of their status. (Tell a man and his offspring that they’re rich for generations then they will be socialized to believe they’re rich and that this is their class. The same is true of poverty)
He basically told people, “Stay in your lane.”
Biological determinism – Shared behavioral norms and the social and economic groups – primarily races, classes and sexes arise from inherited, inborn distinctions and that society in this sense is an accurate reflection of biology
not the case
Science is free from social and political taint right?
Science in support of the outcome rather than the science being null and void and anticipating no outcome
Making nature an accomplice in political inequality
The writer is a practicing scientist
Problems
- Enormous social importance but limited reliable info – Only a description of social changes
- What questions are being asked? And how are they validating social preferences
His aim is to redo the science of these areas
PvF Annotation
Pure Black vs pure white
Having mixed people violate laws in order to challenge how the case should be handled
Disguised slavery and pay that reflected that
Interest of freedom in the same ways there was an interest in slavery
The switch in roles from democratic vs republican
Adhering to the law but violating its spirit
Civil Rights vs Social and Political Rights
A look at this book alludes to why the mismeasure of a man is important. There are so many intricacies of policy and how things are defined.
The slaughter house cases prove this. Need for expansion and scope