A Philosophical Defense of Misanthropy

ISBN-13: 9781032029986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 124 str.

Toby Svoboda

Opis

This book argues that it can be both reasonable and appropriate to adopt a certain kind of misanthropy. The author defends a cognitivist version of misanthropy, an attitude whose central feature is the judgment that humanity is morally bad.

Spis treści

1. Introducing Misanthropy  2. The Example of Schopenhauer  3: The Ethics of Misanthropy  4. Arguing for Cognitivist Misanthropy  5. Objections to Cognitivist Misanthropy  6. Misanthropy and Non-Human Nature  7. Living as Misanthropists

O autorze

Toby Svoboda is an associate professor of philosophy at Fairfield University, USA.  He is the author of The Ethics of Climate Engineering (Routledge, 2017) and Duties Regarding Nature (Routledge, 2015).