Aquinas and the Virtues of Hope
Theological and Democratic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14760290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Lamb (0000-0001-9165-5229, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 300-332 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jore.12143 |
| OpenAlex | W2401068844 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 22 |
A prominent political historian has recently identified unwarranted optimism and unwarranted pessimism as democracy's “dual dangers.” While this historical analysis highlights the difficulties that accompany democratic hope, our prevailing conceptual vocabulary obscures the resources needed to address them. This essay attempts to recover these resources by excavating insights from Thomas Aquinas, who supplies one of the most systematic accounts of hope in the history of religious and political thought. By appropriating the conceptual structure of Thomas's theological virtue of hope, this essay reconstructs a democratic virtue that perfects acts of hoping in fellow citizens to achieve democratic goods and thereby enables citizens to respond properly to difficulties that tempt presumption and despair
Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Optimism · Pessimism · Political science · Politics · Presumption · Sociology · Virtue · Law · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
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The Principle of Political Hope
Thomistic Pneumatology and the Adversity Quotient
Beyond the Politics of Fear
Beyond Pessimism
Aquinas and Józef Tischner on hope
Defying democratic despair
Sacrifice in Environmental Ethics and Theology
Hope
Hope in political philosophy
Between Presumption and Despair
Persona in spe. Anthropological and Theodical Aspects of Hope
Living Joyfully after Losing Social Hope
Hope in a Democratic Age
Blessed Are the Organized
Trust, hope and empowerment
Civic Virtues
Virtue for Pluralists
Liberalism and the Moral Life
Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas's Ethics
Thomas Aquinas on the Passions
Liberal Purposes
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
Christianity and Contemporary Politics
Talking to Strangers
The Problem with Grace
Democracy, Tolerance, Aquinas
Democratic Moral Education and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology
Beyond Gated Politics
American Grace
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |