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The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

de Roger Scruton

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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 can be changed -- have wrought havoc for centuries. Scruton's argument is nuanced, however, and his preference for pessimism is not a dark view of human nature; rather his is a 'hopeful pessimism' which urges that instead of utopian efforts to reform human society or human nature, we focus on the onl… (mais)
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Een boek dat het waard is om een tweede keer te worden gelezen. Een beschrijving geven van de inhoud is niet eenvoudig.

Wereldverbeteraars of ze links of rechts zijn getuigen van onrealistisch optimisme. Zij gaan voor allesomvattende oplossingen waarvoor ze tot alles geoorloofd denken te zijn. De doelen zijn vaag en onbereikbaar en maken het nodig om de strijd nooit te stoppen. De Franse Revolutie, de marxistische revoluties en het nazisme zijn de best gekende uitingen van roekeloos optimisme. Allen richtten ze zich op een interne vijand, een zondebok -adel, bourgeoisie en joden.

Hun optimisme is gebaseerd op misvattingen en drogredenen zoals de drogreden van de nulsom en de samenvoeging. De nulsom misvatting dat het succes van de ene noodzakelijk de mislukking van een andere inhoudt en de illusie dat vrijheid, gelijkheid en broederlijkheid - drie op zichzelf staande goede dingen - ook samengevoegd goed uitpakken. Meer vrijheid zorgt echter onvermijdelijk voor minder gelijkheid.

Het boek geeft ook veel interessante bibliografische verwijzingen. ( )
  Rodemail | Mar 4, 2023 |
The title of Roger Scruton's latest book distracts from what he is trying to say. Some reviewers have tried to depict his thesis as 21st Eeyore singing the blues. Instead his thesis can be summed up in a line from Yeats that he uses in his final chapter, "The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity". Scruton identifies the ideologies that have wreaked havoc on our continent (and in some cases still do) and more importantly why.
For example in chapter six he writes of "the Planning Fallacy." Here an authority such as the state (or as in western Europe the EU) helps us progress through top down planning. This planning gives a lot of people comfort but has no data to support the belief that it works. In fact, as Scruton points out, this has been debunked by one school of economics, the Austrians. Von Mises and the Nobel laureate, Hayek.
This is an extremely readable book, a popular presentation of philosophy for those of us who are tired of statist, gnostic tomes that seem to dominate the subject area. I cannot remember the last time I reached the end of a book and went back to the beginning with a pen to read again and make notes, I did with this! ( )
  liamfoley | Jun 28, 2010 |
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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 can be changed -- have wrought havoc for centuries. Scruton's argument is nuanced, however, and his preference for pessimism is not a dark view of human nature; rather his is a 'hopeful pessimism' which urges that instead of utopian efforts to reform human society or human nature, we focus on the onl

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