Aquinas on the Emotion of Hope
2020 ◽
Vol 94
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pp. 379-404
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Hope is important in Thomas Aquinas’s account of the emotions: it is one of the four primary emotions and the first of the irascible emotions. Yet his account of hope as a movement of the sensory appetite toward a future possible good that is arduous to attain appears to be overly restrictive, for people often hope for things that are not cognized as arduous (e.g., when I hope for fine weather on my wedding day, that a professional athlete remains in good health, or that an experimental medicine is effective). This paper examines Aquinas’s reasons for limiting hope to arduous goods.
2011 ◽
Vol 18
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pp. 12-19
2000 ◽
Vol 16
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pp. 77-83
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Vol 1
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pp. 91-102
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