| Description |
xii, 317 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Moral philosophy and moral theology series, 1527-523X ; no. 5 |
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Moral philosophy and moral theology ; no. 5
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: <COMPOSITOR>contents page vii -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Anthropological and Ontological Foundations of Human Hope -- 1. The origin of human nature according to Josef Pieper and Jean-Paul Sartre -- 1.1. The distinction between res artificialis and res naturalis -- 1.2. The production of a res artificialis -- 1.3. The origin of res naturales -- 1.4. The origin of human nature: Pieper and Sartre -- 1.5. The antagonism between nature and freedom as the interpretive key to Sartre -- 2. The question of happiness -- 3. The human being in via -- 3.1. Human hope is founded on an ontology of not-yet-being -- 3.2. The ontology of not-yet-being: Pieper, Heidegger and Bloch -- 3.3. The existential uncertainty of the human being -- 2. Characteristics of Human Hope -- 1. Six characteristics of hope that we can determine on the basis of ordinary language -- 2. Other characteristics of human hope -- 2.1. Hope is an intentional movement toward an object -- 2.2. Hope and desire -- 2.3. Hope and expectant waiting -- 2.4. Hope presupposes at least some degree of certainty and an act of belief, -- accompanied by an act of trust -- 2.5. Hope and fear -- 2.6. Hope and love -- 2.7. Hope and optimism -- 3. The structure of hope inherent in philosophy and reason -- 3. The Distinction Between Ordinary and Fundamental Hope -- 1. The distinction between ordinary and fundamental hope in Pieper -- 2. Limit-situations as occasions for the manifestation of fundamental hope -- 3. The different objects of ordinary and fundamental hope -- 4. Ordinary hope -- 4.1. The passion of hope in Thomas Aquinas -- 4.2. Hume and Bloch -- 5. Fundamental hope and the theological virtue of hope -- 5.1. The loss of an understanding of virtue -- 5.2. The concepts of habitus and virtue -- 5.3. Hope: a natural or theological virtue? -- 5.4. The relation between ordinary and fundamental hope -- 4. The Extreme Opposites of Hope: Presumption and Despair -- 1. Presumption -- 2. Despair -- 2.1. Fundamental despair as the anticipation of nonfulfillment -- 2.2. The root of despair: acedia -- 2.3. The degrees of despair -- 5. Death as the Enemy of Hope -- 1. The human being facing the insurmountable obstacle of death -- 2. The grounds for fundamental hope in the face of death -- 3. The incorruptibility of the human being -- 4. Bloch: The principle of hope in the face of the anti-utopia of death -- 5. A comparison of Pieper's and Bloch's positions -- 6. Hope and History -- 1. A philosophy of hope and of the end of history after Hiroshima -- 2. The philosophy of history -- 3. The philosophy of progress -- 3.1. The philosophy of progress in modern thought -- 3.2. Kant and the end of history -- 3.3. The evolutionism of Teilhard de Chardin and Lorenz -- 3.4. Bloch and the end of history -- 4. Nihilism: Despair and history -- 5. Pieper's hope and the end of history -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Josef Pieper was one of this century's most influential thinkers. A leading Catholic philosopher and authority on Thomas Aquinas, his writings have won a wide audience through such books as The Four Cardinal Virtues and About Love. This important book is one of few extended studies of Pieper's thought - in particular, of his contributions to a philosophy of hope. Pieper was one of the first modern philosophers to explore the idea of hope in human life, and Schumacher discusses his development alongside contributions by Sartre, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger, Bloch, and other thinkers." |
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"Schumacher looks at hope as a virtue, one opposed by vices such as despair and presumption, particularly as they are treated in existentialism and Marxism. He also explores Pieper's treatment of hope in relation to the ideas of death and immorality, and in the philosophy of history. Using the idea of hope to examine such themes as dignity, ethics, the good, and the just, Schumacher provides a valuable, wide-ranging introduction to a shaper of contemporary Christian thought against a richly drawn intellectual background."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-303) and index |
| Subject |
Pieper, Josef, 1904-1997.
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Hope.
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| LC no. |
2003011112 |
| ISBN |
0823222810 : |
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