Essay-Interlude No. 01
Racism, A Pathology of Borrowed Identity
Racism, A Pathology of Borrowed Identity
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This essay on Racism inaugurates the first special philosophical issue of The Architecture of Mind. While the journal usually approaches neuroscience through a philosophical lens, these monthly interludes will step aside from the laboratory and enter the moral theatre of human existence. Their purpose is to ask what kind of beings we become when we look at one another, when we classify one another, and when we forget that dignity is never a privilege bestowed by birth but a responsibility revealed through life.
The challenge of civilization is not to eliminate human comparison, but to prevent comparison from becoming a justification for unequal human dignity
Alexis O. Kaya, MD, PhD, Neuroscientist
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