Hope as the Prudent Art of Potentialities: Its Significance for a Christian Economics of Human Flourishing

Hope is a complex and multifaceted syndrome, an emotion as well as a virtue. It requires attention in a Christian economic paradigm oriented at justice and human flourishing. This article makes a case for this type of interdisciplinary research. Our focus lies on hope with a high (aspirational) agen...

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主要作者: Nullens, Patrick 1964- (Author)
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语言:English
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出版: Brill [2018]
In: Philosophia reformata
Year: 2018, 卷: 83, 发布: 2, Pages: 225-245
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CF Christianity and Science
NBE Anthropology
NCE Business ethics
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Economics
B Justice
B positive psychology
B Hope
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总结:Hope is a complex and multifaceted syndrome, an emotion as well as a virtue. It requires attention in a Christian economic paradigm oriented at justice and human flourishing. This article makes a case for this type of interdisciplinary research. Our focus lies on hope with a high (aspirational) agency and prudence. In recent economics, with increasing appreciation for relationships, well-being, and the common good, there is an openness to motivational concepts such as hope. Positive psychology has also given attention to hope as a form of well-being and resilience. We stress the importance of embedding hope in a Christian worldview in the tradition of Abraham Kuyper's Pro Rege and the work of Nicholas Wolterstorff. Christian thinking fosters the relationship between hope, faith, moral orientation, and worship as imagining a different future. Hope as a prudent art of potentiality is a transformational power, creating a society where humans can flourish and fight off anxiety and despair.
ISSN:2352-8230
Contains:Enthalten in: Philosophia reformata
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/23528230-08302004