#1173 David Cooper: Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lops, and today I'm joined by Dr. David Cooper. He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and today we're talking about his book Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge. So, Dr.
Cooper, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Right, well, thank you very much for for having me on your show. Okay, so let me ask you first, what is misanthropy? Well, I think one needs to distinguish vernacular everyday senses of misanthropy from
as it were, philosophical misanthropy. I mean I take it that in the everyday sense misanthropy is something like hatred of people or scrooge-like meanness. I take philosophical uh misanthropy to essentially be a a a negative judgment on the human condition. The claim that human life is is saturated with failings and vices, like hypocrisy, cruelty, greed, vanity, and so on. And I think it's perhaps worth adding that I think the philosophical misanthropes
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