Uses of Pessimism And the Danger of False Hope

Name: Uses of Pessimism And the Danger of False Hope
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ISBN: 9780199968978

ISBN-10: 0199968977

ISBN-13: 9780199968978

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Authors: Roger Scruton

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Ranging widely over human history and culture, from ancient Greece to the current global economic downturn, Scruton makes a counterintuitive yet persuasive case that optimists and idealists -- with their ignorance about the truths of human nature and human society, and their naive hopes about what can be changed -- have wrought havoc for centuries. Scruton's argument is nuanced, however, and his preference for pessimism is not a dark view of human nature; rather his is a 'hopeful pessimism' which urges that instead of utopian efforts to reform human society or human nature, we focus on the only reform that we can truly master -- the improvement of ourselves through the cultivation of our…

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List price: $17.95
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface



The First-Person Future



The Best Case Fallacy



The Born Free Fallacy



The Utopian Fallacy



The Zero Sum Fallacy



The Planning Fallacy



The Moving Spirit Fallacy



The Aggregation Fallacy



Defences Against the Truth



Our Tribal Past



Our Civil Present



Our Human Future