Gabriel Marcel's Ethics of Hope: Evil, God and Virtue (Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy) - Hardcover

Graper Hernandez, Jill; Hernandez, Professor Jill Graper

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1441196277 ISBN 13: 9781441196279

Publisher: Continnuum-3PL, 2011

Synopsis

The idea of 'hope' has received significant attention in the political sphere recently. But is hope just wishful thinking, or can it be something more than a political catch-phrase? This book argues that hope can be understood existentially, or on the basis of what it means to be human. Under this conception of hope, given to us by Gabriel Marcel, hope is not optimism, but the creation of ways for us to flourish. War, poverty and an absolute reliance on technology are real-life evils that can suffocate hope.

Marcel's thought provides a way to overcome these negative experiences. An ethics of hope can function as an alternative to isolation, dread, and anguish offered by most existentialists. This book presents Marcel's existentialism as a convincing, relevant moral theory; founded on the creation of hope, interwoven with the individual's response to the death of God. Jill Hernandez argues that today's reader of Marcel can resonate with his belief that the experience of pain can be transcended through a philosophy of hope and an escape from materialism.

About this title

Book Description:

This book presents Garbriel Marcel's existentialism as a convincing, relevant moral theory, founded on the creation of hope.

About the Author:

Jill Graper Hernandez is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1441196277
• ISBN 13: 9781441196279
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Hernandez Professor Jill Graper