Title Analytic Academic Antinatalism - Julio Cabrera.pdf ✅

A.A.A (Analytic Academic Antinatalism) Julio Cabrera During my long philosophical life, I have been concerned, on the one hand, with the question of thinking from Latin America, the critique of Eurocentrism and of some mechanisms in the production of professional philosophy in the academies (in my book "Diary of a philosopher in Brazil" , 2010- 2013 (2a edition) and in numerous articles). In other places, I criticized the current predominance of “analytic philosophy” in the international philosophical panorama (especially in my book “Margins of the philosophies of language”, 2003-2009 (2nd printing), considering this predominance harmful for the philosophical activities and aiming at a wider diversity of philosophical approaches and styles. In a third, more well-known line of thought, I have developed a pessimist and antinatalist ethics, from the “Project for a Negative Ethics” (1989) to “Discomfort and Moral Impediment” (2019). But I had never concentrated these three lines of my thinking in a unique reflection. Now I am beginning to see important connections between, on the one hand, antinatalism and academic philosophy and, on the other, between antinatalism and analytic philosophy, and I wanted to sketch something about this triple confluence of subjects. For I believe that the antinatalist movement may be acquiring some of the practices of academic philosophy that I criticize and, on the other hand (or on the same hand), antinatalism can be harmed by the predominance of analytical methods of thinking excluding other alternatives. I will start this reflection from my pessimist ethics. One of the central theses of my book “Discomfort and Moral Impediment” is the lack of sensible and moral value of human beings, due to the terminal situation in which they were placed asymmetrically by their parents. Precisely because humans are without value, they are dramatically compelled to try to value themselves in some way. Humans are compulsively obliged to cultivate a strong self-esteem, necessary to survive in the world in the company of other equally anxious people; because others do the same, they try hard to build their own self-