Misanthropy

Misanthropy (from Greek: μισεῖν misein, hate ',' reject ' and ἄνθρωπος anthropos, human ' ) describes the point of view of a person who hates the people and ( their nearby) rejects. Such a person is self- misanthrope (Eng. " misanthrope ", " misanthrope " ) called.

Conceptual delimitation

Misanthropy characterizes a state of mind, no action. A misanthrope must be neither violent, aggressive or arrogant, altruistic behavior is not ruled out with him. The misanthropy is, despite the etymological appearances, not conceptually, in contrast to the related concept of philanthropy, which generally tend to the action is referred to as the attitude of a person. In extreme cases of disgust towards humans, the misanthrope secretes and leads a hermit existence. This self-imposed isolation is to be distinguished from pathological shyness, in spite of the desire then no proximity to the surrounding human community can be achieved.

Philosophy

Immanuel Kant condemned in its General Comment on exposure of aesthetic reflective judgments, the misanthropy:

" In contrast, people to flee from misanthropy, because they were hostile to, or from Anthropophobie ( shyness ) because they are feared as his enemies, sometimes ugly, sometimes contemptuously. "

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer expressed more often in a misanthropic way, such as here in the Porcupine parable:

"This drives another society's need, arising from the emptiness and monotony of their own inside, people; but their many obnoxious characteristics and intolerable errors they encounter each other again. "

Art

The literature misanthropy among other things, the dramatists Menander ( Dyskolos, German The Grouch or The Misanthrope ), Shakespeare ( Timon of Athens, German Timon of Athens) and Molière (Le Misanthrope, German The Misanthrope ) treated, as well as of the satirist Lucian of Samosata ( Timon ). Matias Faldbakken published with his works Cocka Hola Company, power and Rebel and Unfun the Scandinavian misanthropy.