
Saved by Keely Adler
What’s the Use of Hope?
Saved by Keely Adler
Hope, writes the moral philosopher Kieran Setiya,18 “keeps the flicker of potential agency alive.”
Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act. When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes—you alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others. Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable,
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