Enlightenment Views of Hope
This chapter discusses accounts of hope found in the works of important Enlightenment thinkers: René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch de Spinoza, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant. The paper’s guiding questions are: Where are discussions of hope located withi
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Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hope
Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hope
Steven C. van den Heuvel Editor
Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hope
Editor Steven C. van den Heuvel Department of Systematic Theology Evangelische Theologische Faculteit Leuven, Belgium
ISBN 978-3-030-46488-2 ISBN 978-3-030-46489-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46489-9
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Preface
Recent decades have seen an upsurge in the interest in “hope,” among scholars of various disciplines. Hope is an ambiguous phenomenon—the word has many associations. Yet its core is simple: hope denotes a desire (we hope for something) and it involves a probability (the chances of the attainment of the desire have to be somewhere between zero and one). While most scholars agree with these two basic facts about the phenomenon of hope, there is a lot of diversity concerning the precise structure of hope; there is also debate about the value of hope. Regarding the structure of hope: it is often considered to be a virtue, leading to rich debate on how exactly this virtue is constructed and at what it is (or should be) aimed. Yet there are also those who do not consider hope to be connecte
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