Concept
Person of color
Overview
term for a person considered non-white
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So true is this, that when a man is by nature liable to such affections, arising from some concomitance of elements in his constitution, it is a probable inference that he has the corresponding complexion of skin. For the same disposition of bodily elements, which in the former instance was momentarily present in the case of an access of shame, might be a result of a man's natural temperament, so as to produce the…
Aristotle, The Categories
States what Person of color is.
And it gives an example in the colours, saying, as from the black the violet, so this Virtue springs from Nobility. The violet is a mixed colour of purple and black, but the black prevails, and the colour is named from it. And thus the Virtue is a mixed thing of Nobility and Passion; but, because Nobility prevails, the Virtue takes its name from it, and is called Goodness. Then afterwards it argues, by that which…
Dante Alighieri, The Banquet
States what Person of color is.
Thus color is posterior to body considered as body, but is naturally prior to "white body," considered as white. _______________________ EIGHTH ARTICLE [I, Q. 39, Art. 8] Whether the Essential Attributes Are Appropriated to the Persons in a Fitting Manner by the Holy Doctors? Objection 1: It would seem that the essential attributes are appropriated to the persons unfittingly by the holy doctors. For Hilary says (De…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
Close in meaning to Person of color; the term itself is not named.
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Part of American philosophy.