Yahoo Web Search

Search results

      • Although there are few explicit and systematic treatments of hope (elpis) in ancient Greek philosophies, they nevertheless contain important approaches to the nature of hope and its role in the good life and practical deliberation (Gravlee 2020). Ambivalent evaluations of hope can be found in many texts.
      plato.stanford.edu/entries/hope/
  1. People also ask

  2. Jul 21, 2020 · Ancient Greek philosophy—especially as found in Plato and Aristotle—provides a set of critiques, proposals, case studies, and frameworks surrounding hope that are deep and complex, and which can serve as a lively stimulus to further exploration.

    • G. Scott Gravlee
    • gravlegs@mountunion.edu
    • 2020
  3. Mar 8, 2017 · 2.1 Ancient Accounts of Hope. Although there are few explicit and systematic treatments of hope (elpis) in ancient Greek philosophies, they nevertheless contain important approaches to the nature of hope and its role in the good life and practical deliberation (Gravlee 2020). Ambivalent evaluations of hope can be found in many texts.

  4. Jul 21, 2020 · Although ancient Greek philosophies contain few dedicated and systematic expositions on the nature of hope, they nevertheless include important remarks relating hope to the good life, to...

  5. Although ancient Greek philosophies contain few dedicated and systematic expositions on the nature of hope, they nevertheless include important remarks relating hope to the good life, to reason and deliberation, and to psychological phenomena such as memory, imagination, fear, motivation, and pleasure. After an introductory discussion of Hesiod ...

  6. This ambivalence surrounding hope in early Greek literature corresponds to themes in the philosophy of Heraclitus, the Presocratic thinker most well-known for his embrace of paradox and opposition.

  7. Jul 9, 2018 · On the other hand, the 16 contributions deal with specific aspects of hope in Greek and Latin literature, history and art, including Pindar's poetry, Greek tragedy, Thucydides, Virgil's epic and Tacitus' Historiae. The volume also explores from a historical perspective the hopes of slaves in antiquity, the importance of hope for the enhancement ...

  8. Can We Find Hope in Ancient Greek Philosophy? Elpis in Plato and Aristotle 1 Introduction: What is Hope? The aim of this chapter is not simply to investigate the various approaches to the Greek concept of elpis in Plato and Aristotle,1 but to orient that investigation with regard to the emotion that we in English call hope (§3). This is a project

  1. People also search for