Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

Abstract

This paper raises the question of whether there is anything foundational to hopefulness when considering it as a virtue, and uses the Aristotelian distinction between virtue in the “natural sense” and virtue in the “strict sense” to make the claim that hopefulness has a primacy to it. While that primacy rests on the existence of care and responsiveness of community, those caretakers must themselves be possessed of hopefulness, which, at its best will be virtuous.

Publication Title

Social Philosophy Today

ISSN

1543-4044

Publisher

North American Society for Social Philosophy

Volume

32

First Page

1

Last Page

16

Comments

Digital Commons content consists of archived post-print of article from volume 32 of Social Philosophy Today, published in November 2016.

Volume 32 is entitled Education and Social Justice - Jeff Gauthier, editor.

This volume consists of proceedings from 2015 conference.

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