RT Article
T1 Hope: The Janus-faced virtue (with feathers)
JF European journal for philosophy of religion
VO 11
IS 3
SP 11
OP 30
A1 Schrader, Michael
A2 Levine, Michael P. 1950-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1690219939
AB In this essay we argue for the Janus-faced nature of hope. We show that attempts to sanitise the concept of hope either by separating it conceptually from other phenomena such as wishful thinking, or, more generally, by seeking to minimise the negative aspects of hope, do not help us to understand the nature of hope and its functions as regards religion. Drawing on functional accounts of religion from Clifford Geertz and Tamas Pataki, who both—in their different ways—see the function of religion in terms of its capacity to satisfy deep psychological needs, we demonstrate that religion uniquely positions itself with regard to hope's two faces, simultaneously exploiting positive and negative aspects of hope.
K1 Desire
K1 Hope
K1 Religion
K1 Virtue
K1 Wish-fulfillment
DO 10.24204/ejpr.v11i3.2935