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The Moral Psychology of Hate

2022

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2022 | The 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.

Contents Preface: The Road to Auschwitz Wasn’t Paved with Indifference Rivka Weinberg xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: Hate and Racial Ignorance Noell Birondo xxi I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES, EAST AND WEST 1 Hate and Happiness in Aristotle Jozef Müller 2 Hatred in Buddhist Thought and Practice Christopher W. Gowans 3 23 II: HATRED OF SELF AND OTHERS 3 4 The Snares of Self-Hatred Vida Yao 53 Misanthropy and the Hatred of Humanity 75 Ian James Kidd 5 6 A Tradition Grounded in Hate: Racist Hatred and Anti-Immigrant Fervor Grant J. Silva “Woman Hating” as Redescription 99 119 Kate M. Phelan ix Birondo_9781538160855.indb 9 12/24/2021 8:49:01 PM x Contents 7 Why We Hate 137 Agneta Fischer, Eran Halperin, Daphna Canetti, and Alba Jasini III: HATE, ETHICS, AND RATIONALITY 8 Good Hate 165 Damian Cox and Michael P. Levine 9 Hateful Actions and Rational Agency 185 Mary Carman 10 Trashing and Tribalism in the Gender Wars Holly Lawford-Smith 207 11 Hatred as a Burdened Virtue Richard Paul Hamilton 235 Epilogue: An Imperial Passion Noell Birondo 251 Bibliography 263 Index 287 Notes on Contributors 299 Birondo_9781538160855.indb 10 12/24/2021 8:49:01 PM