#1135 Ian James Kidd: What is Misanthropy?
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Ian James Kidd. He's an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, and today we're talking about philosophical misanthropy. So, Dr.
Kidd, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to everyone. Thank you, Riccardo. Pleasure to be here. Looking forward to our conversation.
Okay, so let's start perhaps with the most basic question here. So what is philosophical misanthropy? And since we are talking the philosophical take on misanthropy, how does it differ from the way people commonly talk about misanthropy? Well, there's a distinction I want to draw between philosophical and vernacular misanthropy. So in everyday vernacular language, misanthropy means something like a hatred or a distrust or contempt for human beings, maybe individuals or the collectives.
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