Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved © GLOBAL PUBLICATION HOUSE |Int. J. Social Science & Humanities Research| Paulinus Chikwado Ejeh, PhD Philosophy Unit, General Studies Division, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria Contact: paulinus.ejeh@esut.edu.ng 07038546333 RACISM IN KANT’S ANTHROPOLOGY Corresponding author : *Paulinus Chikwado Ejeh Email: paulinus.ejeh@esut.edu.ng Manuscript ID: #0572 Vol. 05 Issue 04 April - 2022 Page 11 of 20 This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Kant, Anthropology, Racism, Human Nature, Ethics. K E Y W O R D S that all of his claims are wrong or cannot be salvaged. concludes that although Kant’s bad claims reflect poorly on his general philosophical aptitude, they do not necessarily mean an attempt to show that Kant’s Anthropology is racist and so should be reconstructed. It is on this note that the paper contrary that Africans are rational beings and that race or colour has nothing to do with rationality. Therefore, this paper is geography, Kant had alluded that Africans lack rationality because of their skin colour. This paper therefore argues to the means that to be moral is to be perfectly rational. But in his rather neglected or forgotten works – anthropology and physical outlooks. The basic principle of his moral philosophy is that reason is the basis of our status as moral agents. By this, Kant Immanuel Kant has been credited with much of the foundational thoughts in the evolution of deontology and deontological A B S T R A C T P-ISSN 2795-3222 E-ISSN 2795-3248 Doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6762107