Hoping for Peace.
When the odds of achieving world peace seem so long, do hopes for peace amount to anything more than wishful thinking? In this paper, I introduce the idea of meaningful hope, which can help us to understand hopes for peace as genuine hopes. When we act on meaningful hope, we draw on the value of the...
| Publicado en: | Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 98; no. 2; pp. 211 - 222 |
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