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Hope in the 21st Century by John L. Hochheimer (Ed.)

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We can even hold that complete certainty about the motivation for action eludes us. All we have to say is that in principle the goals to which we devote ourselves do not exceed human capacity. As I see it, that is the essence of what it is to hope. Kenneth Seeskin 37 ______________________________________________________________ Notes 1 I Kant, On the Old Saw: That It May Be Right In Theory But It Won’t Work in Practice, trans. E. B. Ashton, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1974, p.

I can ask you to walk from the library to the Golden Gate Bridge because even though it is thousands of miles away, the task could be completed in a year or so. In a science fiction novel, I could ask you to walk to a distant star because even though it might require millions of years to get there, we are still talking about finite time. But what sense would it make to ask you to walk to a place that is infinitely far off and then tell you not to lose hope in trying to get there? One way of accounting for an infinite task is to say that we approach the completion of it as a function approaches - but never actually reaches - its limit.

And trans. H and E Hong, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1980, pp. 45-48. 12 Thucydides, pp. 575-76. 13 R J Richards, The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002, pp. 119-32; K Egan, Getting it Wrong From the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, pp. 21-30. See also K Manheim, Ideology and Utopia, trans. L Worth and E Shils, Vintage, New York, 1936, pp.

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