The uses of pessimism and the danger of false hope /
Ranging widely over human history and culture, from ancient Greece to the current global economic downturn, Scruton makes a counterintuitive yet persuasive case that optimists and idealists -- with their ignorance about the truths of human nature and human society, and their naive hopes about what c...
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Oxford University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- The first-person future
- The best case fallacy
- The born free fallacy
- The utopian fallacy
- The zero sum fallacy
- The planning fallacy
- The moving spirit fallacy
- The aggregation fallacy
- Defences against the truth
- Our tribal past
- Our civil present
- Our human future.
