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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 Web: www.paslab.com.au Eprints: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Blackler,_Alethea.html -------- Original message -------- From: Ahmed Ansari <[log in to unmask]> Date: 29/06/2016 4:27 pm (GMT+00:00) To: [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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------