Wilhelm von Humboldt on Slavery and the Snobbishness of the Philosophers

One minor oddity of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on the Von Humboldt brothers is that the one devoted to Alexander by Dalia Nassar has many references to his opposition to slavery (and imperialism), while Wilhem’s opposition to slavery goes unmentioned in the entry by Kurt Mueller-Vollmer and Markus Messling.

My interest in Wilhem von…