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- Elpis’s role as a goddess showed the importance of hope as lasting strength, something offering peace and drive to keep going through hard times. The way hope affects feelings, as seen by Elpis, was deep for people and groups. Hope was a place to find strength and the will to stand up to problems with bravery.
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Jul 21, 2020 · Post provides a broad framework for understanding ἐλπίς here as hope, and his approach introduces important themes, including not only the dual nature of hope, but also the relation of hope to rationality, trust, motivation, and the afterlife.
- G. Scott Gravlee
- gravlegs@mountunion.edu
- 2020
Mar 8, 2017 · 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.
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...
This chapter aims to illuminate ways in which hope was significant in the philosophy of classical Greece. 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 ...
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
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...
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 ...
