How We Hope Martin Adrienne
How We Hope Martin Adrienne What exactly is hope and how does it influence our decisions? She contends that hoping for an outcome means treating certain feelings, plans, and imaginings as justified,…
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How We Hope Martin Adrienne
What exactly is hope and how does it influence our decisions? She contends that hoping for an outcome means treating certain feelings, plans, and imaginings as justified, and that hope thereby involves sophisticated reflective and conceptual capacities.Martin develops this original perspective on hope--what she calls the "incorporation analysis"--in contrast to the two dominant philosophical conceptions of hope: the orthodox definition, where hoping for an outcome is simply desiring it while thinking it possible, and agent-centered views, where hoping for an outcome is setting oneself to pursue it. In How We Hope, Adrienne Martin presents a novel account of hope, the motivational resources it presupposes, and its function in our practical lives.
In exploring how hope influences our decisions, she establishes that it is not always a positive motivational force and can