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How do we, as individuals, accommodate a pessimistic and misanthropic view of the world? If the human condition is impossible to ameliorate, then how should we live? How do we bring about the wellbeing and happiness we seek in the face of such overwhelming evidence that our condition is and will remain very bad indeed and owes significantly to our own entrenched failings?

In this thoughtful and insightful book the philosopher David E. Cooper explores this fundamental dilemma. He rejects an activist commitment to radical improvement of the human condition, and instead advocates quietism as a way to live as well and as happily as we can. This quietist position, which draws on Buddhist and Daoist ideas as well as those from western philosophy, is supplemented by finding refuge from the everyday human world in a "place" both "other" and "better" than that world. Such places of refuge, Cooper argues, are best found in natural environments.

Refuge in nature, whether a garden or a wilderness, cultivates an attunement to, or a sense of, the way of things, and thereby invites assurance of being "in the truth" and the enjoyment that such assurance fosters. The quietist who finds refuge in nature lives as well as and as happily as anyone can do who accepts the negative verdict on the human condition.

    Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge
    The quietist who finds refuge in nature lives as well as and as happily as anyone can do who accepts the negative verdict on the human condition.
    Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge
    Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge. David E. Cooper. Current price: $28.75. Publish Date: November 26th, 2024. Publisher: Agenda Publishing.
    Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge
    The quietist who finds refuge in nature lives as well as and as happily as anyone can do who accepts the negative verdict on the human condition.
    Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge
    Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge. David E. Cooper. Current price: $108.90. Publish Date: November 26th, 2024.
    Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge by David E. Cooper
    How do we, as individuals, accommodate a pessimistic and misanthropic view of the world? If the human condition is impossible to ameliorate, then how should 
    Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge
    To bring about the wellbeing and happiness we seek, argues Cooper, requires a quietism that seeks refuge from the everyday human world in nature.
    Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge - Kindle
    The quietist who finds refuge in nature lives as well as and as happily as anyone can do who accepts the negative verdict on the human condition.