{"id":295,"date":"2020-10-04T09:55:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T16:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/?p=295"},"modified":"2022-09-13T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:30:08","slug":"benevolence-irvine-art110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/benevolence-irvine-art110\/","title":{"rendered":"Benevolence-Irvine-ART110"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What\u2019s Wrong with Benevolence
\n<\/em><\/strong>Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment<\/em><\/p>\n

(<\/span>Encounter Books, 2011<\/span>)
\nART 110<\/span><\/p>\n

Is benevolence a virtue? In many cases it appears to be so. But when it comes to the \u201cenlarged benevolence\u201d of the Enlightenment, David Stove argues that the answer is clearly no. In this insightful, provocative essay, Stove builds a case for the claim that when benevolence is universal, disinterested and external, it regularly leads to the forced redistribution of wealth, which in turn leads to decreased economic incentives, lower rates of productivity and increased poverty.<\/p>\n

As Stove points out, there is an air of paradox in saying that benevolence may be a cause of poverty. But there shouldn\u2019t be. Good intentions alone are never sufficient to guarantee the success of one\u2019s endeavours. Utopian schemes to reorganize the world have regularly ended in failure.<\/p>\n

Easily the most important example of this phenomenon is twentieth-century communism. As Stove reminds us, the attractiveness of communism\u2014the \u201cemotional fuel\u201d of communist revolutionaries for over a hundred years\u2014has always been \u201cexactly the same as the emotional fuel of every other utopianism: the passionate desire to alleviate or abolish misery.\u201d Yet communism was such a monumental failure that millions of people today are still suffering its consequences.<\/p>\n

In this most prescient of essays, Stove warns contemporary readers just how seductive universal political benevolence can be. He also shows how the failure to understand the connection between benevolence and communism has led to many of the greatest social miseries of our age.<\/p>\n

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\nAuthors<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Andrew Irvine<\/strong> is a professor of philosophy at UBC\u2019s Okanagan Campus. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney for work in the Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy on mathematical truth and scientific realism. Since then he has published and lectured on topics in the philosophy of mathematics, the history and philosophy of logic, and the philosophy of law. He is especially interested in the work of the twentieth-century philosopher, essayist and social critic, Bertrand Russell. He is co-author of the logic textbook Argument<\/em> and author of the stage play Socrates on Trial<\/em>.<\/p>\n

David Stove<\/strong> was a professor of philosophy at the University of Sydney.<\/p>\n


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