Name: Misanthropy and Pessimism: Philosophy’s Darker Views of Human Nature
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Author: Aiguafreda, Quim
ISBN: 9798173019691

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Misanthropy and Pessimism: Philosophy’s Darker Views of Human Nature

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Physical Book

Publisher

Independently published

Author

Aiguafreda, Quim

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9798173019691

Misanthropy and Pessimism: Philosophy’s Darker Views of Human Nature

Aiguafreda, Quim (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

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Synopsis "Misanthropy and Pessimism: Philosophy’s Darker Views of Human Nature"

What if misanthropy is not merely a bad mood, but a philosophical judgment? Misanthropy and Pessimism explores the thinkers who questioned humanity’s flattering self-image. From Plato, Diogenes, Hobbes, and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, Freud, Sartre, and Arendt, it examines recurring doubts about reason, morality, conformity, cruelty, vanity, power, and progress. The book also looks beyond individual philosophers to the habits of the species itself: tribalism, hypocrisy, self-deception, bureaucracy, war, consumerism, the treatment of animals, and environmental destruction. Again and again, human beings prove capable of recognizing their own failures while remaining impressively committed to repeating them. Is humanity genuinely improving? Are our worst traits exceptional, or simply ordinary traits given the right conditions? Can pessimism be intellectually serious without collapsing into despair? A philosophical examination of humanity’s darker tendencies—and of the long tradition of thinkers who suspected that our opinion of ourselves may be somewhat generous.