Moral Psychology of Hate - Paperback

by Noell Birondo (Editor)

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title

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.

Author Biography

Noell Birondo is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. He works primarily in moral philosophy and the history of ethics. His previous book is Virtue's Reasons: New Essays on Virtue, Character, and Reasons (2017), which he coedited with S. Stewart Braun. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame and his B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley.