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by Kornephoros Today at 4:45 am
"It makes me sad that a person can be filled with such misanthtropic anger =/"
this is what wikipedia says about misanthropy
Philosophy
In Western philosophy, misanthropy has been connected to isolation from human society. In Plato's Phaedo, Socrates defines the misanthrope in relation to his fellow man: "Misanthropy develops when without art one puts complete trust in somebody thinking the man absolutely true and sound and reliable and then a little later discovers him to be bad and unreliable...and when it happens to someone often...he ends up...hating everyone."[2] Misanthropy, then, is presented as the result of thwarted expectations or even excess optimism, since Plato argues that "art" would have allowed the potential misanthrope to recognize that the majority of men are to be found in between good and evil.[3] Aristotle follows a more ontological route: the misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god, a view reflected in the Renaissance of misanthropy as a "beast-like state."
i think what Socrates said is very true. repeated deception can make a person hate everybody. but that doesn't mean he's wrong if he hates them. i also agree with Aristotle - if you're a misanthrope in a neutral society, either you're a very good person or a very bad one. in the first case the misanthrope disconnects from society because others don't understand him and if you're a bad person, you stay away from others because your criminal behaviour is not accepted either. and there's another thing too - everybody tends to perceive others thru the prism of his own personality. so if you're a little boy and you never seen a naked girl before, maybe you'd think that she got a dick in her pants just as you have. because you expect her to be like you. so if you're a bad person, you expect others to be bad as you are - which gives you an advantage and protects you from deception etc. but if you're a good person? you'd think others are good too! which is totally false. so you're in big disadvantage this way.
by Kornephoros Today at 4:45 am
"It makes me sad that a person can be filled with such misanthtropic anger =/"
this is what wikipedia says about misanthropy
Philosophy
In Western philosophy, misanthropy has been connected to isolation from human society. In Plato's Phaedo, Socrates defines the misanthrope in relation to his fellow man: "Misanthropy develops when without art one puts complete trust in somebody thinking the man absolutely true and sound and reliable and then a little later discovers him to be bad and unreliable...and when it happens to someone often...he ends up...hating everyone."[2] Misanthropy, then, is presented as the result of thwarted expectations or even excess optimism, since Plato argues that "art" would have allowed the potential misanthrope to recognize that the majority of men are to be found in between good and evil.[3] Aristotle follows a more ontological route: the misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god, a view reflected in the Renaissance of misanthropy as a "beast-like state."
i think what Socrates said is very true. repeated deception can make a person hate everybody. but that doesn't mean he's wrong if he hates them. i also agree with Aristotle - if you're a misanthrope in a neutral society, either you're a very good person or a very bad one. in the first case the misanthrope disconnects from society because others don't understand him and if you're a bad person, you stay away from others because your criminal behaviour is not accepted either. and there's another thing too - everybody tends to perceive others thru the prism of his own personality. so if you're a little boy and you never seen a naked girl before, maybe you'd think that she got a dick in her pants just as you have. because you expect her to be like you. so if you're a bad person, you expect others to be bad as you are - which gives you an advantage and protects you from deception etc. but if you're a good person? you'd think others are good too! which is totally false. so you're in big disadvantage this way.
