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This chapter returns to the thought of Gabriel Marcel on hope and explores relationships that obtain between hope, theism, ontology, and especially inquires whether his thought confirms and furthers the interpretations of hope developed in the early chapters of Part III. Earlier treatment of Marcel ended with his notion of absolute hope, and such hope is the prime focus of this chapter. But since absolute hope is an unconditional form of what this essay terms “full” hope, and since relations between absolute hope and theism are similar in type to relations between full hope and what it implies, it is with re-examination of several features of full hope that we begin.
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“Theism and Personal Relationships,” (TPR), p. 37.
I use this more detailed translation provided by Joan Nowotny (“Gabriel Marcel’s Philosophy of Hope,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto, 1974, p. 285) from Pour une sagesse tragique et son au-delà (Paris: Plon, 1968), p. 67, rather than that in Tragic Wisdom and Beyond (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973), p. 38.
“Indicate” [indique] is adapted from Charles Widmer, Gabriel Marcel et le théisme existentiel, Cogitatio fidei, no. 5 (Paris: Cerf, 1971), p. 181.
Tragic Wisdom, p. 14. The original reads “comme des irradiations de l’être.” Pour une sagesse tragique, p. 32.
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Godfrey, J.J. (1987). Marcel and Absolute Thou. In: Godfrey, J.J. (eds) A Philosophy of Human Hope. Studies in Philosophy and Religion, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3499-3_19
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