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Full Title

Pessimism – Bailey 1st Edition

Author(s)

Joe Bailey

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781136085482, 9780415002479, 9780415002486, 9781315001739, 9781136085406, 9781136085567, 9781306172653

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

First Published in 1988. Pessimism is a peculiar idea. It is either seen as a psychological problem or as a metaphysical issue, but in neither sense is it treated as useful or illuminating or in any way relevant to our understanding of the world. It is the thesis of this book that pessimism and optimism are unavoidable kinds of social judgment of the future which we all display and act upon.