132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
Misanthropy is often dismissed on moral grounds. Many people hold that malice toward human persons is problematic and vulnerable to moral objections. In... Read more
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
Biography
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).
