Faith, Hope, and Love

ISBN-13: 9783030950644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Opis

These essays consider the three traditional theological virtues—faith, hope, and love—alongside their opposites—doubt, despair, and hate, from a scholarly perspective. The volume includes contributions not just from philosophers of religion, but also from psychologists, sociologists, and film and literature scholars, to paint a complex and nuanced picture of these virtues, both of how we might understand them, and how we can hope to embody them ourselves.  While these virtues make up a core part of the Christian tradition, the chapters here go far and wide in search of different cultural conceptions of these universal human concerns. Inquiries are made into these virtues within Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and Islamic thought, alongside philosophers including Aristotle, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Levinas, and Murdoch. The resulting tapestry is often beautiful, sometimes horrific, but always thoroughly human.  This text appeals to students and researchers working in these fields. 

Chapter [9] is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Virtue and Vice

Troy DuJardin

I: Faith and Doubt

2. Faith (and Doubt?) Among the Virtues

Jennifer Herdt

3. Restoring Faith, Curing Doubt: Krsna’s Instruction in the Bhagavad Gita

Francis Clooney

4. Faith, Doubt, and the Buddhist Path of Enlightenment

Dale S. Wright

5. Kierkegaard on Faith, Doubt, and Uncertainty

C. Stephen Evans

6. Wilfred Cantwell Smith: Scholar, Mentor, and Humanist

Charles Kimball

II: Hope and Despair

7. Dante’s Commedia: from Despair to Hope to Glory

Peter Hawkins

8. Radical Hope, Despair and Time: Responses to Nietzsche

Ryan Coyne

9. Hope but not Optimism: The Kantian Mind at the End of All Things

Andrew Chignell

III: Love and Hate

10. How to ‘Love Thy Neighbor’: Lessons from G.W.F. Hegel on Conflict and Reconciliation

Molly Farneth

11. Making Lovers: Emmanuel Levinas and Iris Murdoch on Moral Formation

Stephen Bush

12. Empathy and its Critics

Paul Bloom

13. What Muslim Scholars Talk About When They Talk About Love

Marion Katz

14. Bhakti and Accidental Grace: Hate as Love in the Hindu Tradition

Wendy Doniger

15. Obedience and Love in Christian Ethics

Robert Merrihew Adams

16. The Happiness of Promise: Ferdinand Holler and Alexander Nehamas on Love and Care

Fannie Bialek

O autorze

Troy DuJardin earned his Ph.D in the Boston University Graduate Program in Religion, and served as Assistant Director of the Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion from 2015 to 2020. He has also served as a writing fellow in the Boston University Core Curriculum, a teaching fellow in religious studies, and an instructor in philosophy.

M. David Eckel is Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University. He has received the Metcalf Award for Teaching Excellence (1998), and has served as Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Humanities (2002-5), as well as Assistant Dean and Director of the Core Curriculum. He also has served on the Visiting Committee of Harvard Divinity School.

Blurb

These essays consider the three traditional theological virtues—faith, hope, and love—alongside their opposites—doubt, despair, and hate. The volume includes contributions not just from philosophers of religion, but also from psychologists, sociologists, and film and literature scholars, to paint a complex and nuanced picture of these virtues, both how we might understand them, and how we can hope to embody them ourselves. And while these virtues make up a core part of Christian tradition, the essays here go far and wide in search of different cultural conceptions of these universal human concerns. Inquiries are made into these virtues in Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and Islamic thought, alongside philosophers including Aristotle, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Levinas, and Murdoch. The resulting tapestry is often beautiful, sometimes horrific, but always thoroughly human.

Chapter [9] is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.