by Roger Scruton · Quetzal Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725649275
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«As Vantagens do Pessimismo» is the philosophical essay by Roger Scruton, published by Quetzal Editores in paperback (232 pages, in Portuguese).
Roger Scruton argues that the greatest danger is false idealistic optimism, whether left-wing or right-wing. The European catastrophes (fascism, Nazism, communism) stemmed from those fallacies. Against them he proposes a humane and responsible pessimism, and champions civil society, freedom, the culture of forgiveness and irony as a civilisational legacy.
Original title: «The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope». The translation is by José António Freitas e Silva.
For readers of political philosophy and social criticism interested in the limits of optimism as a guiding principle.
