Human Wrongs Watch
By Boaventura De Sousa Santos*
Toward a new Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Turning Despair into Hope (Image from Wall Street International).
30 January 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Baruch de Spinoza, the great 17th century philosopher, wrote that the two basic human emotions (or “affections”, as he called them) are fear and hope, and he suggested that a balance needs to be struck between the two, because fear unmingled with hope leads to despair and hope unmingled with fear can lead to destructive self-confidence.
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