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       Misanthropy
   DIR By: Dragon Hellfire
       Date: November 2, 2019, 9:49 pm
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       Misanthropy has had a lot of different functional definitions
       throughout the ages.
       Plato defined misanthropy as the feeling that was created when
       trust in someone is revealed as misplaced. The amount of
       misanthropy here increases relative to the amount of trust
       placed and the duration the trust was placed. This is not what
       we mean by misanthropy anymore. We call this misplaced trust
       naive optimism, for now.
       Kant broke down misanthropy into two categories: anthropophobia
       and enmity. Anthropophobia is intense social anxiety and fear of
       social situations. Enmity is an intense disgust or hatred toward
       society. Both of these similarly define a misanthrope as one who
       wishes to avoid social situations and society in general.
       That seems agreeable but Schopenhauer would challenge you to
       think a step further. In a society of misanthropes, or at least
       with enough people who believe in misanthropic adages, there is
       a paradoxical sense of society among those who dislike society.
       These sorts of people may (but not necessarily) believe things
       like human existence being an error, suicide being a rational
       choice, or that we are all suffering through existence together.
       In any case, misanthropy - though not necessarily harmful by
       itself - is a symptom that may help in the determination of an
       underlying mental illness. Moreover, there exist therapeutic
       methods of alleviating feelings of misanthropy for those who are
       not fond of the symptom.
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