TY - BOOK AU - Scruton,Roger TI - The uses of pessimism: and the danger of false hope SN - 9780199747535 (alk. paper) AV - B1649.S2473 U83 2010 U1 - 149/.6 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Pessimism N1 - The first-person future -- The best case fallacy -- The born free fallacy -- The utopian fallacy -- The zero sum fallacy -- The planning fallacy -- The moving spirit fallacy -- The aggregation fallacy -- Defenses against the truth -- Our tribal past -- Our civil present -- Our human future ER -