The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope
Book by Roger Scruton
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In this provocative and passionately argued book, Roger Scruton proposes that the greatest harm and havoc has been wrought on the world by those who have presented themselves as optimists and idealists, whether of the left or of the right. ... Google Books
Originally published: September 9, 2010
Author: Roger Scruton
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Scruton writes about the mechanisms aginst the defence of truth; it is a very good account of how we try to avoid seeking truth in contemporary world. The book ...
Jun 6, 2010 · The Uses of Pessimism embodies many of his virtues: the argument is passionate and provocative, yet rendered through exquisitely limpid prose.
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Scruton writes about the mechanisms aginst the defence of truth; it is a very good account of how we try to avoid seeking truth in contemporary world. The book ...
Indulging in some speculative anthropology he proposes that our propensity for over-optimism is the product of a time when life was precarious and emergency ...
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The utopian fallacy is more like a strategy employed by ruthless optimists: By leaving the ideal that society is going to achieve in a deliberately obscure fog ...
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The argument of this book proposes that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and ...
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The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of. False Hope. New York: Oxford University Press, $29.95. (hardcover). Roger Scruton is an eloquent proponent of local ...
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Mar 20, 2013 · Spanning from ancient Greece to the current economic crisis, the book persuasively concludes that optimists and idealists have courted disaster ...