... on the well-being and prosperity of future generations. If those in the ideal society are ecological pessimists (or even if they regard ecological pessimism as plausible), then they will be reluctant to bank on future growth outweighing definite up-front environmental loss (Section 9.2.7 ). Suppose we...

... Berlin Christman John Williams Bernard metaphors Stoics romanticism myth of Er Plato case studies Aristotle samurai Mishima Yukio fate autonomy tragic view optimism pessimism Stoics romanticism Plato Yahara case mistakes According to the Random House Dictionary “fate...

... crisis political conflict new world order translation theory transfer normalization secularization political realism pessimism America The previous chapters examined Carl Schmitt’s late writings with a two-fold interest. On the one hand, they carefully retraced the historical horizon...

...-determination theory, and research on goal structure, content, appraisal and pursuit. Implicit theories, life tasks, and self-regulation strategies (e.g., defensive pessimism) exemplify perspectives on motivation that integrate personal and situational factors using a functional approach. The chapter calls...

... influential interpretations of Augustine's pessimism and furnishes a more capacious vision of his moral and political thought. The chapter acknowledges how rhetorical devices serve pedagogical functions, helping to diagnose the dangers of presumption while discouraging listeners from sliding into despair...

... practice observed among elites. Very broadly, the ethnography seeks through a particular case to illuminate the changeable force that public cosmopolitanism has in civic culture in postcolonial Africa. In part, the agenda is set in opposition to a toxic version of Afro-pessimism that finds Africa doomed...

... Frederic Wonder Woman comic Black culture Black Panther comic Blade comic Chute Hillary erotic fantasy acts Halperin David Luke Cage comic character Nigeria Okorafor Nnedi Barnes David Belasco desire Fillion Patrick Golden Age comics Julien Isaac Legman Gershon porn comics Afro-pessimism...

... architecture against a melancholy terrain indebted to a long European tradition of philosophical pessimism. This opposition is mediated, however, by a trope that Woolf and Sebald share. In his only explicit reference to Woolf, Sebald singles out the figure of the death-bound moth from her story-essay...

... alongside the rise and fall of optimism and pessimism. Among the unquestioned consequences of totalitarianism, the profound demoralization of citizens, learned helplessness, undemocratic thinking, and distrust of institutions have been generally diagnosed as being the most significant. Research on trust...

...The feasibility of industrial policies in Africa: the constraints of political economy and institutions are much exaggerated. Nor is there any basis for the “Afro-pessimism” steming from some alleged peculiarities of Africa in terms of climate, geography, culture or history. industrial policy...

... Nietzsche Gersdorff Carl von Wanderer and His Shadow The Nietzsche God and gods morality “On Truth and Lie in the Extra moral Sense” Nietzsche pessimism Descartes René Enlightenment the Voltaire free will Zarathustra figure Columbus Christopher justice order of rank Thus Spoke Zarathustra...

... culture Enlightenment modernity the free mind optimism progress pessimism morality science Among the Greeks every great thinker became a tyrant of the spirit. HH 261 In the fall of 1877 Nietzsche dictated a list of all nine chapters of the book he had been preparing since...

... heroism. This chapter traces the tension between optimism and pessimism, celebration and cultural mourning that manifests itself in three strongly contrasting films of the immediate postwar period: Great Expectations (1946), Scott of the Antarctic (1948...

...This chapter examines the ‘orthodox’ case of representative groups that under-perform. It makes the point that a major source of pessimism about groups as democratic agents is not the lack of democratic practices constitutionally within representation groups, but with the lack...

...This chapter scrutinizes the argument of Mancur Olson regarding collective action. His thesis has been instrumental in fostering pessimism about the democratic potential of groups. This chapter argues that while his predictions are right, for representation groups, his reliance on a dominant...

... pessimism, which believes that evil is on the whole triumphant. The ultimate aim of the discussion is to present some thoughts on the method of estimating the worth of human life. pessimism evil human life Josiah Royce worth of life [Reprinted from FE, pp. 155-86.] The problem...

... eternal return of pure novelty from Péguy's historical pessimism. Péguy and Whitehead maintain a direction in time and this characterises their views of time. Apparently, there is never a pure ageing, since the present is a form of novelty that can change what it ages from. Péguy Charles Waterloo battle...

...This chapter argues that both secular and theological approaches to ethics are flawed because they are thematizations of that which cannot be articulated in itself in language (God, the neighbor, history, etc.). Yet instead of authorizing cultural pessimism, this leads only to a critique. history...

... to philosophical inquiry, including, above all, its ability to confront philosophical pessimism. Hegel G W F idealism Morris George Sylvester Adorno Theodor Continental Philosophy idealization law Nancy Jean Luc pessimism rupture justice relations alienation Being the Question of chaos Heideggerian...

... by the pessimism that surfaced at the end of the Scottish Enlightenment. For a long time, pessimists have worried that high rates of fuel consumption will deplete the stock and jeopardize the gains of industrialization. Scottish savants and improvers also expressed their own worries, which covered climate change...