Description
Book SynopsisThe Moral Psychology of Hate provides the first systematic introduction to the moral psychology of hate compiling specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars with a wide range of disciplinary orientations. In light of the recent revival of interest in emotions in academic philosophy, and the current social and political interest in hate, this volume provides arguments for and against the value of hate through a combination of empirical and philosophical methods. The authors examine hate not merely as a destructive feeling but as an emotion of great moral significance that illuminates how we understand each other and ourselves. The book will be of major interest to anyone concerned with the dynamics and the moral and political implications of this most powerful of human emotions.
Table of ContentsPreface: The Road to Auschwitz Wasn’t Paved with Indifference, Rivka Weinberg
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Hate and Racial Ignorance, Noell Birondo
I: Historical Perspectives, East and West
1. Hate and Happiness in Aristotle, Jozef Müller
2. Hatred in Buddhist Thought and Practice, Christopher W. Gowans
II: Hatred of Self and Others
3. The Snares of Self-Hatred, Vida Yao
4. Misanthropy and the Hatred of Humanity, Ian James Kidd
5. “Woman Hating” as Redescription, Kate M. Phelan
6. Why We Hate, Agneta Fischer, Eran Halperin, Daphna Canetti, Alba Jasini
III: Hate, Ethics, and Rationality
7. Good Hate, Damian Cox and Michael Levine
8. Hateful Actions and Rational Agency, Mary Carman
9. Tribalism and Trashing in the Gender Wars, Holly Lawford-Smith
10. Hatred as a Burdened Virtue, Richard Hamilton
Epilogue: An Imperial Passion, Noell Birondo
General Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
