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The Moral Psychology of Hope Moral Psychology of the Emotions SeriesEditor:MarkAlfano,AssociateProfessor,DepartmentofPhilosophy,DelftUni- versityofTechnology Howdoouremotionsinfluenceourothermentalstates(perceptions,beliefs,motivations, intentions) and our behavior? How are they influenced by our other mental states, our environments, and our cultures? What is the moral value of a particular emotion in a particularcontext?Thisseriesexploresthecauses,consequences,andvalueoftheemo- tions from an interdisciplinary perspective. Emotions are diverse, with components at various levels (biological, neural, psychological, social), so each book in this series is devoted to a distinct emotion. This focus allows the author and reader to delve into a specificmentalstate,ratherthantryingtosumupemotionsenmasse.Authorsapproacha particularemotion from theirown disciplinary angle (e.g., conceptual analysis, feminist philosophy,criticalracetheory,phenomenology,socialpsychology,personalitypsychol- ogy,neuroscience)whileconnectingwithotherfields.Insodoing,theybuildamosaicfor eachemotion,evaluatingbothitsnatureanditsmoralproperties. TitlesintheSeries TheMoralPsychologyofForgiveness,editedbyKathrynJ.Norlock TheMoralPsychologyofPride,editedbyAdamJ.CarterandEmmaC.Gordon TheMoralPsychologyofSadness,editedbyAnnaGotlib TheMoralPsychologyofAnger,editedbyMyishaCherryandOwenFlanagan TheMoralPsychologyofContempt,editedbyMichelleMason TheMoralPsychologyofCompassion,editedbyJustinCaouetteandCarolynPrice TheMoralPsychologyofDisgust,editedbyNinaStrohmingerandVictorKumar TheMoralPsychologyofGratitude,editedbyRobertRobertsandDanielTelech TheMoralPsychologyofAdmiration,editedbyAlfredArcherandAndréGrahle TheMoralPsychologyofRegret,editedbyAnnaGotlib TheMoralPsychologyofHope,editedbyClaudiaBlöserandTitusStahl The Moral Psychology of Hope Edited by Claudia Blöser and Titus Stahl London•NewYork PublishedbyRowman&LittlefieldInternational,Ltd. 6TinworthStreet,LondonSE115AL www.rowmaninternational.com Rowman&LittlefieldInternational,Ltd.isanaffiliateof Rowman&Littlefield 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706,USA WithadditionalofficesinBoulder,NewYork,Toronto(Canada),andLondon(UK) www.rowman.com Copyright©2020byClaudiaBlöserandTitusStahl Copyrightinindividualchaptersisheldbytherespectivechapterauthors. 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Contents 1 TheMoralPsychologyofHope:AnIntroduction 1 ClaudiaBlöserandTitusStahl I:HopeintheHistoryofPhilosophy 13 2 HopeinArchaicandClassicalGreek 15 DouglasCairns 3 HopeinChristianity 37 AnneJeffrey 4 HopeinKant 57 ClaudiaBlöser 5 KierkegaardonHopeasEssentialtoSelfhood 75 RoeFremstedal 6 PragmatistHope 93 SarahM.Stitzlein II:TheNatureofHope 113 7 EmotionalHope 115 KatieStockdale 8 EpistemologicalAspectsofHope 135 MatthewA.Benton 9 PessimismandthePossibilityofHope 153 SamanthaVice 10 IsHopeaMoralVirtue? 171 NancyE.Snow vii viii Contents 11 HopeinContemporaryPsychology 189 MatthewW.Gallagher,JohannM.D’Souza,andAngelaL. Richardson 12 AZenBuddhistConceptionofHopeinEnlightenment 209 RikaDunlap III:SocialContextsofHope 227 13 InterpersonalHope 229 AdrienneM.Martin 14 HopeforMaterialProgressintheAgeoftheAnthropocene 249 DarrelMoellendorf 15 PoliticalHopeandCooperativeCommunity 265 TitusStahl Index 285 AbouttheContributors 291 Chapter One The Moral Psychology of Hope An Introduction Claudia Blöser and Titus Stahl Drawing on the recent surge of interest in hope in philosophy and moral psychology, thisvolume collectscontributions outlining the most influential historicalandcontemporaryphilosophicalandpsychologicalthinkingonthe role of hope in human life. In particular, it focuses on three areas: Part I assembles current research on accounts of hope from the history of philoso- phy;partIIcontainssystematicdiscussionsofthenatureandmoralpsychol- ogy of hope; and part III focuses on applications of the analysis of hope in socialandpoliticalphilosophy. HopehasalwaysbeenofinteresttophilosophersintheWesterntradition, fromtheancients,whotreateditasanemotionthatcansupportorundermine virtuous behavior, to medieval Christian philosophers and theologians, ac- cordingtowhomhopeisoneofthethreefundamentaltheologicalvirtues,to earlymodernphilosophers,whotriedtointegrateanalysesofhopeinto their comprehensive treatments of human psychology (for an overview of the historical significance of this topic, see Blöser and Stahl 2017). However, modern analytic philosophy’s focus on belief, justification, and knowledge has long pushed hope to the sidelines of that tradition. Only recently, prompted by new publications—first and foremost Adrienne Martin’s How We Hope—and a well-funded research initiative at Cornell University and the University of Notre Dame, hope has received more systematic attention. This has also coincided with a resurgence of references to hope in public discourse. From Barack Obama to the post-crisis movements in Europe, many political forces base their legitimacy on a claimed capacity to revive hopein thepublic sphere. Thesedevelopmentshave generated great interest in hope among researchers and in terms of the topic’s increased visibility in 1
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