Thea,
Locke was talking about all people- the use of Man in this case refers to all peoples regardless of sex. 'Man' is of Germanic origin, Human of Latin. In fact, in Old English the distinct words Wer and Wif were used to distinguish the sexes.
Locke was not excluding women- far from it.
I know it's taboo to reference Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_(word)
Matt Dexter
Designer
Good Care Days
Apologies for brevity; sent from mobile device
On 29 Jun 2016, at 16:51, Thea Blackler <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Nor did Locke. He clearly says all men not all humans!
Associate Professor Thea Blackler
Head of Discipline Industrial Design
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane
Australia
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Eprints: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Blackler,_Alethea.html
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From: Ahmed Ansari <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Date: 29/06/2016 4:27 pm (GMT+00:00)
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Launching the Decolonising Design platform
It never ceases to amaze me when designers, the very people who validate their practice via epistemologies of lived human experience instead of from abstract a priori deductions about human nature from the comfort of ivory towers or controlled-for lab environments, use abstract arguments like "all men are equal" which in themselves have a history originating in eurocentric Enlightenment humanism - but then again, no one bothers to analyze such concepts and ideas within the kinds of histories and power relations they evolved from. I don't think any non-European political philosophy ever made such preposterous, universalizing statements as "we are all equal".
Ahmed
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