Martin How We Hope

A Moral Psychology
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4870-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 168 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Adrienne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
INTRODUCTION What Is Hope? 1
Questions about Hope 1
The Orthodox Definition and Its Critics 4
Hope as a Syndrome 6
The Incorporation Analysis 7
Summary of Chapters 8
CHAPTER 1 Beyond the Orthodox Definition of Hope 11
The Orthodox Definition in the Modern Period 11
The Orthodox Definition in Recent Philosophy 13
Challenge Cases 14
First Analysis: Luc Bovens and Mental Imaging 17
Second Analysis: Ariel Meirav and External Factors 19
Third Analysis: Philip Pettit and Cognitive Resolve 20
Final Analysis: Incorporation 24
Hopeful Thoughts: Fantasy 25
Hopeful Feelings: Anticipation 29
Summary 34
CHAPTER 2 Incorporation 35
Understanding Mental States through Their Fundamental Norms 36
Two Constraints on Reasons 38
Normative Governance Requires Deliberative Responsiveness 38
Deliberation Constrains Reasons 41
The Licensing Stance 44
The Transparency of Doxastic Deliberation to Evidence 46
Putting Transparency and Deliberation Constrains Reasons Together 48
Practical Deliberation about the Licensing Stance 48
The Other Part of the Incorporation Element: Treating Desire as a Practical Reason 52
The Inadequacy of Monist Theories of Motivation 54
The Dualist Theory: Subrational and Rational Motivational Representations 58
Hope as Incorporation 61
Hoping and End-Setting 64
Cases: Hoping without End-Setting 66
The End-Setting Conception's Inability to Accommodate These Cases 67
Conclusion: A Unified Theory of Hope and the Worry about Excessive Reflectiveness 69
CHAPTER 3 Suicide and Sustenance 72
Virtue and Sustenance 72
The First Extreme: Aquinas and Irascible Hope 75
The Thomistic "Inner Cathedral" 76
The Concupiscible and Irascible Passions 77
The Second Extreme: Calhoun and Seconding Practical Commitment 82
Hopeful Fantasies and Sustenance 85
Contingent Sustenance 91
An Example: "Self-Help" and Self-Sabotage 94
Summary 96
CHAPTER 4 Faith and Sustenance without Contingency 98
Chief Plenty Coups and Unimaginable Hope 98
Kant on the Highest Good and Morally Obligatory Hope 101
The Transformation of Hope into Faith 105
Marcel's Hope 108
Grounding Hope in Love 111
The Possibility of Secular Faith 114
Summary 117
CHAPTER 5 Normative Hope 118
Strawson and the Reactive Attitudes 118
Mapping the Territory: Interpersonal Relations 121
Gratitude, Disappointment, and Normative Hope 125
Hope for the Vicious 136
Summary 140
CONCLUSION Human Passivity, Agency, and Hope 141
Index 147

Über Autor(innen)

Adrienne M. Martin is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.